Best Battle Quote?

[Cap Mandrake]

Nominate the best quote by a General, political leader or soldier before, during or after a battle.


***England expects every man to do his duty.....Nelson/Trafalgar

***Nuts...........Gen McAuliff 101st Airborne, Bastogne

***In order to make an omelette, one must break a few eggs.....Napolean

***War is Hell.................W T Sherman

***Too bad....................R E Lee after Pickett's failed attack at Gettysburg

And then, of course, there is Winston Churchill


http://www.winstonchurchill.org/

I'm sure everyone has their favorites

[pasternakski]

"Veni, vidi, vici" - Julius Caesar on returning from his victory at Zela. The soul of wit is brevity.

[Pawlock]

King Henry V: Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more; or close the wall up with our English dead!

Shakespeare.

[Chijohnaok2]

Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his. --George S. Patton

John

[rockymtndoc]

"First Sergeant! Tell the men I said 'No prisoners!'"

George Armstrong Custer, Battler of the Little Bighorn

[Wallenstein]

"Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam!"
(Apart from that I think Cartago should be destroyed!)

- Marcus Porcius Cato, Roman senator 234 - 149 B.C.

[Cap Mandrake]

Originally posted by rockymtndoc
"First Sergeant! Tell the men I said 'No prisoners!'"

George Armstrong Custer, Battler of the Little Bighorn

Did he really say that? Is there any truth to the rumor that later in the battle he said "Holy He11, where did all these G** D*** Indians come from?"

[Hades]

Originally posted by Cap Mandrake
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***In order to make an omelette, one must break a few eggs.....Napolean

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I thought Vladimir Lenin said that?

[Hades]

thats not much of a quote