Interesting Quotes-Achtung Carl and/or Otto

Hello everybody-i am compiling a list of quotes from WW2 from neone at all. I am interested in sharing wiv othere sand i hope to speak to Carl or Otto aboput providing such a page on this site provided i get a good response from all-so keep them coming, Cheers from OZ, Ryan

 

Hello Ryan: also somewhere on these forums is just what you are seeking--a page of quotes.

Ill start you off with one from Maj. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington: "I Hate Jerks".

Heres another but I dont know who said it. Generals Are Sergeants--With Stars".

plus the ones I have down below that appear with my postings.

 

"Shooting down Russian aeroplanes is like killing a child"
Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring


"Nobody ask the winner for his methods"
Adolf Hitler

"As long as the Panzers succed there will be a victory"
Generaloberst Heinz Guderian


"The German navy is so small that, even with all our effort and best willing can only show one thing: how to die with honour"
Grossadmiral Erich Raeder

"If a single bomb falls onto the Reich, my name will be no longer Hermann Göring!"
Reichsmarschall Hermann W. Göring


"British are like the Germans, a brave people. If Berlin would be bombed we would not surrender, nor the British"
Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring

"I think what we have done is to wake an asleep giant"
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

Will I survive a defeat? That is in God's hands. The fate of defeated is cruel. But I am happy, because I am aware that I have done all to get the victory and making everything I could"
Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel

"France has lost a battle!
But France has not lost a war!"
General Charles DeGaulle

"The victory was so expensive that it could have been a defeat"
Sir Winston Churchill

There are a lot, but those are which I know right now.

 

Good work Friedrich!

 

Is there anyway I can access this quotes page???

 

Some places I found to start with:

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

http://www.angelfire.com/la/raeder/worldwarIIquotes.html

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/q128115.html

Chamberlain seemed such a nice old gentleman that I thought I would give him my autograph.
Adolf Hitler

 

nice quotes at http://www.usflag.org although not all of them are related to WWII.

 

EXXXCCCCCEEEEEELLLLLEEEENNNNNTTTT!!!!!!

 

Right, some from, and some about or related to, WWII...

"Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious."
- Iosef Stalin

"No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping."
- Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, two days before Pearl Harbor

"Hitler has shown that hell is still here on earth. He has, in fact, taken the lid off hell, and we have all looked into it. That is his service to the human race."
- Field Marshal Smuts, 1944

"Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties - but right through every human heart - and all human hearts."
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"Tonight lads, you go to the 'Big City'. Tonight, you have the opportunity to light a fire in the belly of the beast and burn his black heart out!"
- Air Marshal Arthur "Bomber" Harris, RAF Bomber Command

"We are in the position of a man who has siezed a wolf by the ears, and dare not let go."
- Major General F.W. von Mellenthin, 1943, on Russia and the Eastern Front

"There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war."
- Benito Mussolini

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."
- Iosef Stalin

"How many students, to whom World War II is now musty history, recognize at once the name of Georgi Zhukov? ... How many are aware of this man, best described by Harrison E. Salisbury, who 'will stand above all others as the master of the art of mass warfare in the twentieth century'"?
- Martin Caidin

"You will recall a remarkable discovery we made when we conquered Germany - that there actually were no Nazis there at all, just millions of "decent Germans" suffering terribly because of the awful things they'd been made to do by other people. You will recall also that General MacArthur found the same thing in Japan - that the Japanese were gum-chewing democrats to a man, and only awaiting the arrival of the Americans to prove it...Why the western world should be so avid to swallow this particular brand of eye-wash no man can say. For Nazi Germany was not a nation of honest dupes...Until they were beaten (when all colours change overnight) they were total enthusiasts for world-domination, whole-hearted agents of a hideous tyranny which, if not finally checked, would have brought down the curtain on human freedom for generations to come."
- Nicholas Monsarrat

 

First off, a belated welcome to the forums. Nice quotes. I ecspecially thought the one about Pearl Harbor was kind of funny.

 

"It gives my men much needed target pratice"
Jochim Pieper when being asked about the sherman tank.

I'll be back with more quotes soon, but my mind is empty right now.

 

I think 'Primary Source Quote Archive' is pretty catchy, Otto - I'll see if I can hum a tune to it....

(PS : I like the Jagdpanther !)

 

Great quotes Heartland!

The Stalin quote regarding elections was frequently quoted during the Florida election dispute but there were questions regarding the quote's authenticity: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa121800a.htm

Some great Churchill quotes:

"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." - Winston Churchill, radio broadcast, Oct. 1, 1939.

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." - Winston Churchill, speech, June 4, 1940, House of Commons.

"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'" - Winston Churchill, speech, June 18, 1940, House of Commons.

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." - Winston Churchill, Aug. 20, 1940, House of Commons.

"The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age." - Winston Churchill, speech, March 26, 1942, London.

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." - Winston Churchill, speech, May 13, 1940, House of Commons.

"In defeat unbeatable: in victory unbearable." - Winston Churchill, referring to Viscount Montgomery, victor at El Alamein and later chief of the imperial general staff.

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Winston Churchill, quoted in Reader’s Digest, Dec. 1954.

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." - Winston Churchill, speech, Nov. 10, 1942, on the Eighth Army’s victory against Rommel at El Alamein.

"It may almost be said, 'Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.'" - Winston Churchill, in History of the Second World War, vol. 4.

"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." - Winston Churchill, in The Grand Alliance, vol. 3.

"Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill." - Winston Churchill, in The Second World War.

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The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
--Adolf Hitler

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
--Ernest Hemingway

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
--Ernest Hemingway

There are some people that will be deterred by the fact that we have nuclear weapons... But those people are the folks we can deal with anyway.
--Gen Charles Horner

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
--Georg Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
--Adolf Hitler

 

And, of course, the greatest WWII quote of all:
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Here are Some (including the ones in my signature) that i like.

"God watches for the fools of the world, the drunkards of all nations, and the United States of America" - Chancellor Otto von Bismarck

"Blood alone moves the Wheels of history."--Benito Mussolini.

"Liberty is a duty, not a right"--Benito Mussolini

"War is to man as maternity is to woman."--Benito Mussolini

"[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history."--Benito Mussolini