Quote of the day III

"how fortunate for leaders that men do not think" adolf hitler..

 

" A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic" joseph stalin..

 

Who says I am not under the special protection of God?

Adolf Hitler

 

....a symphony from hell.

Marshal Georgi Zhukov describing the Russian barrage that opened the battle at Kursk

 

1."Shut up! There's a weekend's leave in Auckland dead ahead of us."
2. "Hit her again! It'll be a week's leave!"
3. "Once more for a fortnight!"

Captain Birdsong of the New Zealand corvette Kiwi motivates his protesting chief engineer to ram the Japanese submarine I-1 three times

 

"An army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team.
This individuality stuff is a bunch of bullshit."

- General George Patton Jr

 

"It seems that the Russians must already possess better and heavier tanks than we do."

Report of the German Military Commission during the Spring of 1941

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And nobody listened.....

 

Churchill was sitting on the toilet when he heard a voice from outside the door ;- "Mr. Churchill. The Privy Seal wishes to see you immediately."

Back came the reply :- "Tell the Privy Seal I am sealed in the privy and can only deal with one sh*t at a time."

 

What is a "Privy Seal"?

 

It is man holding a special appointment. It has changed over the centuries in meaning.

Lord Privy Seal

A high office of state to which appointments are still made even though it no longer bears any specific responsibilities. It dates back to the 13C when the holder was in charge of the king's private seal (used in transacting royal business) and therefore had great power. In the mid-20C it was used as a cabinet appointment for a minister carrying out a specific and perhaps temporary task. More recently it has gone with the job of either *leader of the House of Lords or leader of the House of Commons. For holders of the office since 1983 see the *cabinet.


See:

Lord Privy Seal in Encyclopedia of Britain by Bamber Gascoigne

It doesn't say what it has turned into meaning recently, but probably still an appointed position.

 

" We´ll study it when the war is over."

General Pietro Badoglio in July 1940 on German mechanized warfare methods...

Pietro Badoglio

 

The Lord Privy Seal or Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal is the fifth of the Great Officers of State in the United Kingdom, ranking beneath the Lord President of the Council and above the Lord Great Chamberlain. The office is one of the traditional sinecure offices of state. Originally, its holder was responsible for the monarch's personal ("privy") seal (as opposed to the Great Seal of State, which is in the care of the Lord Chancellor). Today, the holder of the office is invariably given a seat in the Cabinet.

Though one of the oldest offices in government anywhere, it has no particular function today; thus the office has generally been used as a kind of Minister without Portfolio. Since the premiership of Clement Attlee, the position of Lord Privy Seal has frequently been combined with that of Leader of the House of Lords or Leader of the House of Commons. The jocular clarification that the office holder is neither a lord, nor a privy, nor a seal, though sometimes credited to Edward Heath, was attributed by him to Ernest Bevin.

Re: Wikipedia

 

"Mussolini Presented Hitler with a list that would kill a bull, if a bull could read!"

Ciano on the list of requirements Mussolini gave to Hitler for Italy to take part in the war Sept 1939

 

"This generation will nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. . . The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just. A way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless." (FDR State of the Union, Jan. 1939)

 

"When war comes between Japan and the United States, I shall not be content to merely occupying Guam, the Philipines, Hawaii, and San Francisco. I look forward to dictating the piece of United States in the White House at Washington."

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Japanese Navy

 

"I have nothing against Islam because it educates the men in this division for me and promises them heaven if they fight and are killed in action. A very practical and attractive religion for soldiers."

Heinrich Himmler

 

"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.”

Herman Melville

 

"History repeats itself because nobody was listening the first time around."
-Anonymous

 

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. (Voltaire)

But my absolute favorite of his is; Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.