Quote of the day III

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

Every morn brought forth a noble chance, and every chance brought forth a noble knight.

Winston Churchill
Speech in the House of Commons, June 4, 1940

 

"The hour has come; kill the Hun."

How Churchill said he would end his speech if Germany invaded Britain

 

George S. Patton - "The two most dangerous weapons the Germans have are our own armored halftrack and jeep. The halftrack because the boys in it go all heroic, thinking they are in a tank. The jeep because we have so many Godawful drivers".

 

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.

Benito Mussolini

 

"After I'm gone," Stalin once told the Politiburo, "the Capitalists will drown you like blind kittens."

 

"It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not."
Andre Guide

"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for everything."
F. Jeff Stiles

 

The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

"I am certain that you will fight with everything you've got. Don't overestimate your opponent, but strike him dead."

Admiral Donitz´message to his 41 boats in his battle line with ONS 5 convoy May 1943

 

"It is the Russian Army that has done the main work of ripping the guts out of the German Army."

Winston Churchill
Speech in the Parliament (1944-08-02)

 

"If you want to skate through life, either agree with everything or disagree with everything. Both options require no thinking."

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"There's not a dimes difference between a Republican and a Democrat."

George Wallace

 

If I advance; follow me! if I retreat; kill me! if I die; avenge me!

Benito Mussolini

 

If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know.

Wilhelm Keitel

 

“I assert that a great number of the foreign workers in our country did their work quite voluntarily once they had come to Germany.”

Albert Speer

 

" We reckon it´s rough here! You can reach through the hedge and put the safety-catch on their Spandaus!"

US Soldier describing the war in Normandy summer 1944

 

"If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there."

Marshall Zhukov

 

"It also gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unaware the people around us are of what is really happening to them. "
Adolf Hitler

 

" When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. "

Winston Churchill