Quote of the day III

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little while longer.

U.S. Navy Seabees

 

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Charles De Gaulle

 

Ahhh,well it was quite a long time ago when I read that quote,so I guess my memory is holding up reasonably well.

Thanks for correcting me though.

 

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

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

 

Can't find the original source, probably another anonymous altruism but, when asked as to what makes a person nasty?

This "Pithy" little trilogy emerges...

Gold in their hand, steel at their throat, or wool over their eyes.

 

" The cover of the tomb is closing upon us"

German officer at Stalingrad ( probably late January 43 )

 

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

Winston Churchill

 

All he could do was stand on a tank, baton in hand and shout "I´m the king of Africa!"

Sepp Dietrich on Rommel

( actually I liked this one so I put it here again after some three years...)

 

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Winston Churchill

 

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

 

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Winston Churchill

 

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

Charles de Gaulle

 

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

Charles de Gaulle

 

War is to man what maternity is to a woman.

Benito Mussolini

 

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Charles de Gaulle

 

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill

 

"Don't you see, we SS men were not supposed to think about these things; it never even occurred to us. ... We were all so trained to obey orders without even thinking that the thought of disobeying an order would never have occurred to anybody."

Rudolf Höss, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp answering at Nuremberg to why they did what they did....