Quote of the day III

In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.
Croesus

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will prevent human misery rather than avenge it.
Elanor Roosevelt

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going to be contemplated.
Howard Nimerov

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
Howard Thurman

The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.
JFK

War is a malignant disease, an idiocy, a prison, and the pain of it is beyond telling or meaning; but war is our condition and our history, the place we had to live in.
Martha Gelhorn

There are no warlike people, only warlike leaders.
Ralph Bunche

History teaches us that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald Reagan

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Simon Weil

 

"Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do & die"

Don't know if this one has come up before, but this quote from Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade" often came to mind in overseas service wartime when we feared we were part of a general "cock-up".

The full paragraph went:

"Forward the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Some one had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do & die,
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

 

"It takes the Navy Three years to build a Ship, but it takes the navy Three Hundred Years to build a tradition."

Admiral Cunningham, when told that a withdrawal from Crete would be too costly.

 

"No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair."

George S Patton

 

"Mr. Smith Sir!-As an obvious outsider what are your opinions on the human race?"

Drill Sergeant to a cadet at the Royal Military Academy 1998

 

"Eat my shorts"

Bart Simpson

 

Another brilliant mind at work...

David Levy
University of Maastricht
Netherlands
16 October 2007.........

"My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with robots...It may sound a little weird, but it isn't. Love and sex with robots are inevitable."

 

" Marvellous. They should put one of those things on every aerodrome. Save a lot of taxying."

Pilot Harry Ball-Wilson on being catapulted in a Hurricat to the sky

 

" I want to hear nothing. I want to see nothing. I want to know nothing...I know what´s going on, but you don´t need to tell me about it. Don´t ruin my nerves. I need my confidence to be able to work. "

Joseph Göbbels on hearing about the gloomy state of public opinion November 1934...

From Wages of destruction By Tooze

 

" We live in a time when the final battles are in sight, we are already on the threshold of mobilization and are at war, only the guns are not yet firing!"

Göring 17th dec 1936

 

"He who defends everything defends nothing."

I think this came from Von Clausewitz? Correct me please.

 

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Harry S. Truman

 

To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I.

Harry S. Truman

 

Is there any reference as to whom he was referring to?

it would certainly put that quote in context.


-whatever

-Lou

 

Well, I'll be darned..... a president that didn't get along with the press.

How unusual!

F A V O R I T E ___Q U O T E :

Can't talk..... gotta shoot!

Capt. C.E. 'Bud' Anderson

-whatever

-Lou

 

oops- double post!

 

" The whole thing is a most unsound operation with the dice loaded against us in every direction!"

Admiral of the Fleet (RN) Sir Dudley Pound to Admiral of the (U.S.) Fleet Ernest J King on the convoys to Russia in the summer months

 

Just because i taught you everything you know, doesn't mean i taught you everything i know.