"My men can eat their belts, but my tanks gotta have gas."

George S. Patton

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"All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?"

- Emperor Hirohito (1940)

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" Keep your shirt on, Field-Marshal Kesselring. I´m going to do it!"

According to smiling Albert´s memoirs what Hitler said on taking Malta in Feb 1942

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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Otto von Bismarck

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The problem with defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
George Herbert

If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
Pentagon Official explaining censored footage from Gulf War.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Referring to century old records of John Dalton destroyed when Manchester was bombed.
Issac Asimov

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
Henry Fosdick

They wrote in the old days that it was sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet or fitting in your dieing. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemmingway

I think war might be God's way of teaching us Geography.
Paul Rodriguez

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann

We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that to fight a war against itself is suicide.
Havelock Ellis

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
John F. Kennedy

War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home court advantage.
Dick Motta

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There's one way to find out if a man is honest-ask him. If he says "Yes", you know he's a crook. Groucho Marx

War is fear cloaked in courage.
William Westmoreland

Frankly I'd like to see the Government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private enterprise.
Catch 22

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dieing on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Otto Von Bismark

War hath no fury like a noncombatant.
Charles E. Montague

A day of battle is a day of harvest for the Devil.
William Hooke

There is nothing war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Havelock Ellis

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Francois Fenelon

War is nothing less than a temporary repeal of the principles of virtue....virtue is excluded....nearly all vices are included.
Robert Hall

Wars usually have the effect of speeding up history.
Pieter Geyl

Organized slaughter, we realize, does not settle a dispute; It merely silences an argument.
James F. Green

Studies by a medical Corp Psychiatrist of Combat Fatigue cases....found that the fear of killing, rather than the fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure, and that fear of failure, ran a strong second.
S.L.A. Marshall

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There's one way to find out if a man is honest-ask him. If he says "Yes", you know he's a crook. Groucho Marx

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.

Ellen Goodman
American journalist (1941 - )

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During Operation Cobra '... after receiving an order from Kluge that his Panzer Lehr Division must hold to the last, General Fritz Bayerlein replied:

"Out in front everyone is holding out. Everyone. My grenadiers and my engineers, and my tank crews - they're all holding their ground. Not a single one is leaving his post. They are lying silently in their foxholes, for they are dead."

[Quoted from World War II Magazine Special Collector's Edition - 2007]


-whatever

-Lou

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5 out of 4 people have difficulty with fractions.

The atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

Harry S. Truman

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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Harry S. Truman

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Are you aware it is private property? Why you'll be asking be to bomb Essen next.

— British Secretary of State for Air Sir Kingsley Wood, regards plans to bomb the Black forest, 30 September 1939

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You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

Harry S. Truman

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We shall meet again. I have believed in God.
I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.

Adolf Eichmann

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I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

Harry S. Truman

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"What the thinker thinks, the prover proves."

or rather, if you want to believe something you can always find a way to make it true.

"Hell is on us."
Mamoru Shigemitsu - Japanese Foreign Minister's comments at the capture of Saipan - June 1944

"We need only a very limited briefing. We know how bad the situation is."

Albert Speer in 1942 in a meeting of the Central Planning Board devoted to the fuel situation

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"you will never go broke underestimating peoples intelligence"

- P.T. Barnum

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

Omar Bradley

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Sure about that?

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“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”
- Dalai Lama