Post by .x.x.x. on Jan 6, 2006 16:20:16 GMT 1
Here are some of my favorites:
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797), British statesman and philosopher
"Come on you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?"
Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly, 4 june 1918.
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
-General Dwight D. Eisenhower
I must follow them. I am their leader.
- Andrew Bonar Law, 1858-1923
"Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."
- General George Patton
"Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates."
-F.E. Adcock, British classical scholar
"Laws are inoperative in war"
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.): Pro Milone.
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
-General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him"
- Napoleon Bonaparte
"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys. Look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death!"
- Sun Tzu
"Never in the face of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few."
- Winston Churchill
War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over.
--William Tecumseh Sherman--
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
--George Patton--
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
--Charles Edward Montague--
Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.
--Oscar Wilde--
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
--George Orwell--
Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking.
--Ferdinand Foch-- at the Battle of the Marne
"My business is to succeed, and I'm good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day."
- Napoleon (1804),
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
- Marcus Aurelius
"A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not there accidentally."
Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930's
"The best tank terrain is that without anti-tank weapons."
-Russian military doctrine.
Pearl Harbour Radio Operator: "Is there anything that we can provide?"
Response from Marine Commander on Wake Island: "Send us more Japs!"
.... Said to be one of the last radio transmissions received from the Marines on Wake Island before it fell to the Japanese, 1941.
"If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution."
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"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 is absurd to believe that soldiers who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform can be induced to move forward in battle. Officers who fail to perform their duty by correcting small violations and in enforcing proper conduct are incapable of leading.
- General George S. Patton Jr., April 1943
"Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move. To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example"
- General George Patton Jr "War as I knew it" 1947
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
- General George Patton Jr
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If you know some good quotes, please post them.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797), British statesman and philosopher
"Come on you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?"
Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly, 4 june 1918.
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
-General Dwight D. Eisenhower
I must follow them. I am their leader.
- Andrew Bonar Law, 1858-1923
"Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."
- General George Patton
"Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates."
-F.E. Adcock, British classical scholar
"Laws are inoperative in war"
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.): Pro Milone.
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
-General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him"
- Napoleon Bonaparte
"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys. Look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death!"
- Sun Tzu
"Never in the face of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few."
- Winston Churchill
War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over.
--William Tecumseh Sherman--
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
--George Patton--
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
--Charles Edward Montague--
Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.
--Oscar Wilde--
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
--George Orwell--
Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking.
--Ferdinand Foch-- at the Battle of the Marne
"My business is to succeed, and I'm good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day."
- Napoleon (1804),
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
- Marcus Aurelius
"A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not there accidentally."
Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930's
"The best tank terrain is that without anti-tank weapons."
-Russian military doctrine.
Pearl Harbour Radio Operator: "Is there anything that we can provide?"
Response from Marine Commander on Wake Island: "Send us more Japs!"
.... Said to be one of the last radio transmissions received from the Marines on Wake Island before it fell to the Japanese, 1941.
"If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution."
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"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 is absurd to believe that soldiers who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform can be induced to move forward in battle. Officers who fail to perform their duty by correcting small violations and in enforcing proper conduct are incapable of leading.
- General George S. Patton Jr., April 1943
"Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move. To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example"
- General George Patton Jr "War as I knew it" 1947
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
- General George Patton Jr
....................................................................................
If you know some good quotes, please post them.
