Quote of the day II

History is not a math practice of shirts.

Mussolini countering an anti-war objection of a General "Our army doesn't even have enough shirts."

 

Just read this old quote - this is also attributed to Eichmann. Maybe this is even older?

 

About this one: We word it the same way in German, but in English this is "The die is cast."

 

Indeed it is a very witty and glib remark, however there is one drawback:

From a logical point of view, this remark is a backfire. It implies that Churchill is quick to resign in unfavorable conditions.

 

Follow-up to this one:

"The soldiers lions - led by donkeys."

German observers about the Austrian army at the Battle of Solverino.

Seems Alexander was right.

 

I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams.
The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

General Douglas MacArthur,
in a speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress

 

"If cartoonists had portrayed him - the body, the fat, the short legs, the mug - the result would always have been a pig."

Baldur von Schirach about Martin Bormann.

 

Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it.

Winston Churchill

 

c'mon! more funny Churchill quotes! haha

 

I did this once but I think this is absolutely wonderful:

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
-- Winston Churchill

 

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

Winston Churchill

 

"We are determined that nothing shall stop us from sharing with you all that we have."

Harry L. Hopkins declared to Russia before a crowd at Madison Square Garden on June 22, 1942.

 

"OK, we'll go"

Eisenhower on deciding to start the operation Overlord (?).

 

"The top half is the teacher but the lower half is a sadist."

Reinhard Heydrich once showed a picture of Himmler to one of his subordinates. He covered the upper part of Himmler's face and said this.

http://www.thirdreichpages.org/himmler2.htm

 

Look, my friend, in politics you must always have several rods in the fire!

Regent Admiral Horthy over the loyalty of Hungary to Germany

 

"Man never lies as much as after a hunt, during a war and before an election"
-Otto von Bismarck

 

I'm more in the picture than you are!

Adolf Hitler in argument with Heinz Guderian...



http://www.geocities.com/kkh_khan/Quotes4.html

 

The atom bomb was no "great decision."… It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.


Harry S. Truman

 

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Winston Churchill

 

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.
--Charles De Gaulle