Quote of the day III

" You may send up a dozen Students, mein Führer, but it won´t alter the situation!"

Jodl to Hitler in April 1945 on Western Front situation after A.H. thought of sending Student to correct the situation.

 

"It's the end of the world, and I have a grandstand seat." Ensign George Gay

On August 31st 1995, his ashes were put into the Pacific at the spot where his comrades died 53 years earlier. :S!

 

" After the Ardennes failure, Hitler started a "corporal´s war", there were no big plans-only a multitude of piecemeal fights."

Hasso von Manteuffel a couple of years after war´s end

 

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

Benito Mussolini

( Hmmm that was wierd...)

 

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

Bernard Law Montgomery

 

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

Benito Mussolini

 

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

Benito Mussolini

 

The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.

Benito Mussolini

( I guess meaning the League of Nations, before WW2 representing the UN type system )

League of Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism.

Alfred Rosenberg

( Now why did Hitler not listen to this man...?)

 

" The fighter arm is to be dissolved. Stop aircraft production! Stop it at once, understood ?!"

Adolf Hitler August 1944

 

"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

 

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

Omar N. Bradley

 

These are some quotes i love from people related to a militar enviroment.

From time to time the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants - Thomas Jefferson

Strategy is making use of time and space. Im less concerned about the later than the former. Lost space we can recover, lost time never - Napoleon

The power of an airforce is terrific when there is nothin to oppose it- Winston Churchill

By the way i totally agree with hesslers quote. Although i do not share Hitlers political view, i think learning history is that and not only memory and names

 

“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.” - Charles de Gaulle

 

'Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake'

 

That was Napoleon.

Franklin Roosevelt:
"Repetition does not transform a lie into the truth."
"Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races."
"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.!

 

“One seldom recognizes the devil when he has his hand on your shoulder.”

Albert Speer

 

" After all, the propaganda did not come from me!"

Albert Speer to an assembly of generals once the failure of the rocket warfare had become obvious.

 

"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over" - Joseph Göbbels

(it still works!)

 

you are right Za, I just like that quote even if it was a dead french man