Quote of the day III

"I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious." -Albert Einstein.

 

" Junkers Ju 87 is 80% manufactured by Russians..."

State secretary Milch in June 1943 referring to Russian workers in the Luftwaffe plants

 

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

Harry S. Truman

 

From Churchill's exchanges with Lady Astor:
Lady Astor: "Winston, if I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffee."
Churchill: "Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it."

Lady Astor: "Sir, you are drunk!"
Churchill: "Yes. And you, madam are ugly. But I will be sober in the morning."

 

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?


Joseph Stalin

 

We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.

Fritz Todt

 

"The Pope? How divisions has he got?"

Joseph Stalin

 

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
Winston Churchill

 

"My men can eat their belts, but my tanks gotta have gas."

George S. Patton

 

"All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?"

- Emperor Hirohito (1940)

 

" Keep your shirt on, Field-Marshal Kesselring. I´m going to do it!"

According to smiling Albert´s memoirs what Hitler said on taking Malta in Feb 1942

 

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Otto von Bismarck

 

The problem with defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
George Herbert

If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
Pentagon Official explaining censored footage from Gulf War.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Referring to century old records of John Dalton destroyed when Manchester was bombed.
Issac Asimov

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
Henry Fosdick

They wrote in the old days that it was sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet or fitting in your dieing. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemmingway

I think war might be God's way of teaching us Geography.
Paul Rodriguez

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann

We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that to fight a war against itself is suicide.
Havelock Ellis

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
John F. Kennedy

War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home court advantage.
Dick Motta

 

War is fear cloaked in courage.
William Westmoreland

Frankly I'd like to see the Government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private enterprise.
Catch 22

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dieing on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Otto Von Bismark

War hath no fury like a noncombatant.
Charles E. Montague

A day of battle is a day of harvest for the Devil.
William Hooke

There is nothing war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Havelock Ellis

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Francois Fenelon

War is nothing less than a temporary repeal of the principles of virtue....virtue is excluded....nearly all vices are included.
Robert Hall

Wars usually have the effect of speeding up history.
Pieter Geyl

Organized slaughter, we realize, does not settle a dispute; It merely silences an argument.
James F. Green

Studies by a medical Corp Psychiatrist of Combat Fatigue cases....found that the fear of killing, rather than the fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure, and that fear of failure, ran a strong second.
S.L.A. Marshall

 

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.

Ellen Goodman
American journalist (1941 - )

 

During Operation Cobra '... after receiving an order from Kluge that his Panzer Lehr Division must hold to the last, General Fritz Bayerlein replied:

"Out in front everyone is holding out. Everyone. My grenadiers and my engineers, and my tank crews - they're all holding their ground. Not a single one is leaving his post. They are lying silently in their foxholes, for they are dead."
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[Quoted from World War II Magazine Special Collector's Edition - 2007]


-whatever

-Lou

 

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

Harry S. Truman

 

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Harry S. Truman

 

Are you aware it is private property? Why you'll be asking be to bomb Essen next.

— British Secretary of State for Air Sir Kingsley Wood, regards plans to bomb the Black forest, 30 September 1939