War Quotes

[Commander Stormwolf]

" I am going to india to get re-enforcements, while you men here, must be prepared to fight to the last man to stop the Japanese"

Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton

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[John 3rd]

Churchill is one of my all-time favorite Human Beings. Brilliant man...

[Justus2]

I also love the following:
Lady Astor - "Winston, if you were my husband, I would put poison in your coffee!"
Churchill - "If I were your husband, I would drink it!"

[pharmy]

Surely though the most important one he made was this.
"You ask what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all terror. Victory however long and hard the road may be. For without victory there is no survival."
This was the moment when the war wasn't lost and December 7th (and 10th I think when Germany declared war) when it was won

Edward R. Murrow said this about him much late :
"He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle."

[Empire101]

'What is Life? Life is the Nation. The Individual must die anyway. Beyond the life of the individual is the Nation.'

Hitlers justification for the loss of the 6th Army at Stalingrad.

[mikkey]

"Once I saw a smoking hurricane over the French making it's way back towards England and gave it an escort over the channel. Three weeks later I was escorted by three spitfires towards France.
This would never happen in Russia...never."(Bf109 pilot)

[warspite1]

“I only need a few thousand dead so that I can sit at the peace conference as a man who has fought” - Benito Mussolini to Marshal Badoglio, the Chief of Staff of the Italian Army.

Nice.....[:(]

[Commander Stormwolf]

"Go and pay yourself!"

- RUF leader to his troops at the commencement of "opeartion pay yourself",
the sacking of freetown sierra leone

[ilovestrategy]

ORIGINAL: mikkey

"Once I saw a smoking hurricane over the French making it's way back towards England and gave it an escort over the channel. Three weeks later I was escorted by three spitfires towards France.
This would never happen in Russia...never."(Bf109 pilot)

Dude. That's cool beyond words. [&o]

[crsutton]

"As we say out West, if a man can't skin, he must hold a leg while somebody else does" Lincoln

[DD696]

"I can make this march, and make Georgia howl!"

William T. Sherman - 9 Nov 1864, at the start of his March to the Sea.

Sorry CanoeRebel, but I have come to have great respect for Uncle Billy because of the high rate of property taxation here!!! I wish Uncle Billy would come marching through Georgia again!

[crsutton]

Even better quote from ole Abe. "I can't spare this man, he fights!" Responding to those who wanted to see him (Grant) relieved.

[Sardaukar]

“Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.” Abraham Lincoln when complained that Gen. Grant drinks too much.

and my signature, of course.

[treespider]

'If you don't wish to go forward, let my men pass, please.'
T. Roosevelt

[LargeSlowTarget]

"Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians, yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes. It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persian archers were so numerous that their arrows would block out the sun. Dienekes, however, undaunted by this prospect, remarked with a laugh, 'Good. Then we will fight in the shade.'" - Herodotus, Histories

[Lecivius]

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George S. Patton
 
 
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
 
In honor of John 3rd's recent AAR regarding Oz...
 
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
- Sun Tzu
 
The proper quote mentioned above for Patton...
 
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton

[John 3rd]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George S. Patton


"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

In honor of John 3rd's recent AAR regarding Oz...

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
- Sun Tzu

The proper quote mentioned above for Patton...

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton

HEY! I totally resemble that remark! Both the ABOVE and BELOW quotes that is... [:'(]

[Dili]

"Carthago delenda est" Cato(the elder)


"Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead" David Farragut.


"...Is there any reason why we should be incapable of the same scientific aggressive action the Italians have shown? One would have thought we should have been in the lead. Please state the exact position."

Winston Churchill wrote to General Ismay, Secretary to the Chiefs of Staff, on 18th January 1942 after attack on Alexandria harbour.

[John 3rd]

Carthage must die! (go) is one of my favorite lessons I used in my Western Civilization Classes. NEVER arouse the Romans! The whole 3rd Punic War didn't have to happen...but Cato certainly thought so...

[warspite1]

"You have sat here too long for any good you are doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!".

Conservative MP Leo Amery (echoing the words of Oliver Cromwell to Charles I) to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain during the debate on the Norwegian fiasco 7th May 1940.