I'll start it off with one I found interesting.
"To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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I'll start it off with one I found interesting.
"To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
please share quotes, all shared quotes will be placed on a much better organized page at a later date.
Si Vis Pacem Parabellum -
If you seek peace, prepare for war!
"It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it." - Robert E. Lee
"War will cease when men refuse to fight."
- Fridtjof Hansen
For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.-Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797), British statesman
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
- General George Patton Jr
"Come on you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?"
Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly, 4 june 1918.
Leading Marines at Belleu Wood.
Later Daly told a Marine Historian,
"What I really yelled was: For Christ's sake, men-COME ON!
Do you want to live forever?"
Dan Daly served with Marine Fourth Brigade in WW1.
Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daley was awarded two Medals of Honor and a lot of other awards/medals.
Dan Daly is still one of the great legends of the Marines.
http://www.mclm.com/tohonor/ddaly.html
and philosopher
From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.
--Thomas Jefferson--
Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Fuck surrender"
LT Michael Patrick Murphy U.S. Navy Seals ( â€* 28. Juni 2005)
During his last firefight.
"The power of example is very important to people under stress."
- General Sir John Hackett, British Army
I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink.
- Admiral William Halsey
"Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy."
- Helvetius
your on a roll Mel
NUTS!
Anthony Clement McAuliffe
General, United States Army
"In war there is no second prize for the runner-up."
-General Omar N. Bradley ,U.S. Army, 1950
• Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
- David Hackworth Link
We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction.
"Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates."
- F.E. Adcock, British classical scholar
It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.
- Thomas B. Aldrich, 1836-1907
"Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you."
- Yassir Arafat
--Paperwork will ruin any military force. General Chesty Puller.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. Ernest Hemingway.
This reminds me of what needs to be done with the wars today.
--I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat....You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs-Victory in spite of all terrors-Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival. Sir Winston Churchill
--No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. General George Patton.
--In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it. Erwin Rommel.
That's what I mean.
"Threats without power are like powder without ball."
- Nathan Bailey
"We ain't making no goddamn cornflakes here."
- Col. Charlie Beckwith, founder of Delta Force
"Will screw them hard, fast, and in an elegant manner."
Major General Haim Bar-Lev prior to the 1967 war (he was a General at the time).
"I want you boys to hurry up and whip these Germans so we can get out to the Pacific to kick the s**t out of the purple-pissing Japanese, before the Godda**ed MARINES get all the credit!"
LTGEN PATTON, USA 1945
"We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!"
CHESTY PULLER, USMC
"Come on, you sons of b*****! Do you want to live forever?"
GySgt. DANIEL DALY, USMC
"American Parachutists...devils in baggy pants...are less than 100 meters from my outpost line. I can't sleep at night; they pop up from nowhere and we never know when or how they will strike next. Seems like the black-hearted devils are everywhere..."
(An entry in a German officer's diary found after the Battle of Anzio)
"We never really let the Germans know who won the war. They are being told that their army was stabbed in the back, betrayed, that their army had not been defeated. The Germans never believed they were beaten. It will have to be done all over again...."
Pershing in 1923 on the prospects of another war.
Up men! And to your posts! And let no man forget today, that you are from Old Virginia!
Col. Pickett 3July just before his infamous charge(ordered by Gen Lee) in which my ancestor died in. Siler City NC was named after him