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Best Battle Quote?

Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2003 9:52 pm
by 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
:cool:

Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2003 10:54 pm
by pasternakski
"Veni, vidi, vici" - Julius Caesar on returning from his victory at Zela. The soul of wit is brevity.

Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 1:09 am
by Pawlock
King Henry V: Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more; or close the wall up with our English dead!

Shakespeare.

Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 4:19 am
by Chijohnaok2
Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his. --George S. Patton


John

Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 9:18 pm
by rockymtndoc
"First Sergeant! Tell the men I said 'No prisoners!'"

George Armstrong Custer, Battler of the Little Bighorn

Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 10:10 pm
by Wallenstein
"Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam!"
(Apart from that I think Cartago should be destroyed!)

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

Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 7:55 pm
by 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?"

Re: Best Battle Quote?

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 9:47 am
by 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?

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 10:35 am
by Hades
thats not much of a quote