Quote of the day III

The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically, and economically bankrupt is war.
(or political correctness)

Martin H. Fisher

 

German ambassador to Switzerland said: "What would happen if a German Army of 2 million invaded your country with an army of just 1 million?

The Swiss General answered: "Each Swiss soldier would shoot two times."

(apocryphal?)

 

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can. -- Winston Churchill

 

"Before we're through with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!

Admiral Halsey - December 1941

 

"The enemy knows that he must wipe out our fighters. Once he has done that, he will be able to play football with the German people."

Field Marshal Erhard Milch - 1943

 

Overheard at French customs.

"Yes, I've been to France before, but this time I plan to see it standing up."

An American infantryman.

 

"The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly."

Emperor Hirohito (On his Birthday) - 29th April 1942

 

Scene: A tour bus stops alongside an open field about 2,000 yards from a small village somewhere in France. An old man using two canes slowly makes his way down the steps and onto the ground.

"This is where I was wounded. By god, I'm going to make into that damn town on my own two feet this time! You guys go on ahead. I'll meet you there."

With this, the old man hobbled off into the field.

One by one, his buddies got off the bus, and hurried to catch up with him.

"What are you doing, he asked?"

"We were with you before, weren't we Sarge? We're going in with you this time too."

 

"I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

Gen. Jack D. Ripper

 

"At last, victory, and the little village [Buna] in which I stood will have its name broadcast throughout the world tomorrow. To see those boys [American infantrymen] with their bellies out of the mud and their eyes in the sun, closing in unafraid on prepared positions, made me choke, and then I spent a moment looking over the American cemetary which my orders of necessity have filled from nothing."

M.G. Robert L. Eichelbergber, Commanding Officer, I Corps

 

"We'll start the war from right here."

General Theodore Roosevelt on Utah beach, Normandy, when finding out he and the first units of the 4th division landed about a mile south from their objective:

 

"If there is not the war, you don't get the great
general; if there is not a great occasion, you
don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived
in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."

Theodore Roosevelt

 

There is a story of a Bolshevik revolutionary who was standing on a soap box speaking to a small crowd in Times Square. After describing the glories of Socialism and Communism, he said: “Come the revolution and everyone will eat peaches and cream.”
A little old man at the back of the crown yelled out: “I don’t like peaches and cream.”
The Bolshevik thought about that for a moment and then replied: “Come the revolution, Comrade, you will like peaches and cream.”

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"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."
— Joseph Stalin

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"Quantity has a quality all it's own."
- Joseph Stalin


-whatever

-Lou

 

"a few honest men are better than numbers" Oliver Cromwell
"one might as well charge at a wall" Napoleon, regarding the British Infanty.

 

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.

Bernard Law Montgomery

 

from "The War"

Anzio...

God help us, come yourself, don't send Jesus...this is no place for children.


The Rapido assault...

If you didn't get wounded,
If you didn't get killed,
If you weren't captured,
You weren't at the river... Manuel Rivera Co. E, 2nd Batt., 141st Reg., 36th ID.

 

" Let ´em have it, let ´em have it!"

A.C. Malan was known for his one sentence after " Tally-ho"

 

1. The darkest places in Hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

2. No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
Dante Alighieri

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
William Westmoreland

It seems a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderful, healthy way to rid the human race of unwanted trash.
Fred Woodworth

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
Colman McCarthy

War is a series of catastrophes which results in victory.
Albert Pike

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
Herbert H. Prochnow

To walk though the ruined cities of Germany is to feel actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George Orwell

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Barbara Tuchman

All war is deception.
Sun Tzu

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire

 

"No one gives a damn how well Bavaria is run. All they are interested in is how well it is ruined."

General George S. Patton