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Brig Gen McAuliffe [at Bastogne] "Nuts."

WS Churchill (June 1940): "What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."

"Hit first, Hit hard and keep on Hitting." Jackie Fisher's three H's of battle.

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[font="microsoft sans serif"]Sun Tzu:[/font]
[font="microsoft sans serif"]There is not a single instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.[/font]
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[font="microsoft sans serif"]Dwight D. Eisenhower:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. [/font]
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[font="microsoft sans serif"]Colin Powell:
Experts often possess more data than judgment.[/font]
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[font="microsoft sans serif"]What a fun thread. [:D][/font]

ORIGINAL: Pika

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[font="microsoft sans serif"]Colin Powell:
Experts often possess more data than judgment.[/font]

Powell has got it right!

"Give me a fast ship, for I intend to go in harm's way."
-John Paul Jones

My favourite is
Say truth and only truth, but not the entire truth
by Sir Winston Churchill

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ORIGINAL: Pika

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Colin Powell:
Experts often possess more data than judgment.



Powell has got it right!

And this applies to a lot of "experts" in this forum as well.

(Running for cover) [;)]

"Upon detection of a submarine, the Officer of the Deck will:
1. Immediately commence attack on the submarine.
2. Inform the Captain."

-- Night orders book of the USS North Star (WPG 59), Greenland Patrol, August, 1942.

[font="microsoft sans serif"]"Sun Tzu:[/font]
[font="microsoft sans serif"]There is not a single instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare."[/font]

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Hi, American War for Independence 1775-1783

ORIGINAL: Mogami

[font="microsoft sans serif"]"Sun Tzu:[/font]
[font="microsoft sans serif"]There is not a single instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare."[/font]

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Hi, American War for Independence 1775-1783

Yeah, but he said that a little bit before the American Revolution was around to prove him wrong.[:D]

"You sneaky little bastards aren't getting doodly sh*t from me, except maybe my name, rank, and Social Security number: Wood, Hollis P., Lumberjack, Social Security 106-43-2185."

From 1941.....[:D]

"Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff."

From Dr. Strangelove...[:D]