Quote of the day III

" It didn´t hurt America to have a General so bold that he was dangerous!"

General Pershing on General Patton

 

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Winston Churchill

 

I'm not sure if he's credited with it originally, but it is in his memoirs.

"Do not fear the enemy, for they can take only your life. Fear the media far more, for they will destroy your honor."

General Vo Nguyen Giap

 

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Douglas MacArthur

 

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Winston Churchill

 

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Winston Churchill

 

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Winston Churchill

 

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

Charles de Gaulle

 

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

Winston Churchill

 

"We were sort of happily dancing under the gallows."

Theresienstadt survivor of the day when the German document was made....

Zdenka Fantlova - Part 1 - 11-12-2006 12:44 UTC - Radio Prague

 

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

Winston Churchill

 

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Winston Churchill

 

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Winston Churchill

 

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

Winston Churchill

 

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

W Churchill

 

" Let him drink, I don´t mind if he can just invent more of those excellent weapons!"

Quote by Mannerheim, who acccepted only Aimo Lahti´s drinking habbits (the designer of the Suomi Mg ) in his "staff".


Aimo Lahti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

Erwin Rommel

 

" The weird thing about shooting an enemy plane down is that you never thought you were going to hurt someone..."

George "Grumpy" Unwin

 

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

Winston Churchill

 

" I don´t know where the money went but we sure had a good time!"

Aimo Lahti´s (the designer of the Suomi Mg ) comments when later on he was asked where all the money had gone he had earned for designing guns.