Quote of the day III

If I had held Keitel's position under Hitler, I wouldn't have lasted two weeks.

Ewald von Kleist

 

"It is very difficult to see the way out of Danzig but I don't believe it is impossible to find, provided we are given a little kime and also provided that Hitler doesn't really want war."

Chamberlain to his sister summer 1939

 

It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French.

Heinz Guderian 1940

 

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Wernher von Braun

 

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

'Do you realize that by the time you wake up in the morning twenty thousand men may have been killed?"

Before Churchill went to bed on the evening of June 5th he told his wife this...

 

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

"Though Liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view."

William F. Buckley Jr.

 

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

Charles De Gaulle and Winston Churchill, both ardent patriots, often found themselves at loggerheads. "Of all the crosses I have to bear," Churchill remarked after one particularly animated skirmish, "the Cross of Lorraine is the heaviest."

 

To Major General Early:
General: General Jackson desires to know why he saw so many of your stragglers in the rear of your division today?
Signed: A.S. Pendleton, A.A.G.

Dear General Jackson:
In answer to your note I would state that I think it is probable that the reason you saw so many of my stragglers on the march today is due to the fact that you rode in the rear of my division.
Respectfully,
Jubal Early, Major General

 

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

Henry Ford

 

I hate nobody except Hitler — and that is professional.

Winston Churchill

 

"We're" all related to everything...to each other Physically, to the Earth Chemically, and to the Universe Atomically."

Neil De Grasse Tyson

 

"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."

W. Churchill, Oct. '39

 

We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.

Winston Churchill 1940

 

There are only two types of customers, those who have gone bad and those about to go bad.

Quark

Ok so it is not war related but it is not bad.

v.R