"Yes, and they went down very well too. " - The Duke of Wellington's retort to a comment on how very well French cavalry had come up at Waterloo.

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Uxbridge: "I have lost my leg, by God!"
Wellington:"By God, and have you!" - Also at Waterloo !!

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A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

Chester W. Nimitz

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"I have pissed in the Rhine, now send me gas!" - George Patton

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LOL

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5 out of 4 people have difficulty with fractions.

"If we've lived only for twelve years, we have lived decorous."

Göring during the Nuremberg trials

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"Whatever the reason -- whether Hitler thought he might get away with what he had got without fighting for it, or whether it was that after all the preparations were not sufficiently complete -- however, one thing is certain, he missed the bus." - Neville Chamberlain

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"Nice chap. No soldier."

-Monty, referring to Ike (they didn't like each other very much!)

-whatever

-Lou

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5 out of 4 people have difficulty with fractions.

*Never draw fire: it irritates everyone around you
*Incomming fire has the right of way
*If the enemy is within range; so are you
*The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire
*Anthing you do can get you killed, including doing nothing
*Experienced soldiers are predictable; the world if full of dangerous amateurs
*Mines are equal opportunity weapons
*Snipers's motto: reach out and touch someone.
*When in doubt, empty your magazine

"Murphy's Laws of Combat" Part II

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"If your going to get it, take one with you!"

"The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse."

General Heinz Guderian ca 1944-45

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"Wherever you have an efficient Government, you have a Dictatorship."

Harry S. Truman

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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

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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"Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement."

Dan Quayle

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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

"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."

Plato

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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 will bet you a Monkey to a Mousetrap that the Russians are still fighting and fighting victoriously, two years from now.'"

Winston Churchill on June 22 1941

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"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 S. Patton, Jr

"Nuts"
- General MacAuliffe (when asked to surrender during the Battle of the Bulge, 1944)

adolf hitler . what we have we shall hold
krieg

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for thow . will be ours someday.we shall have it all
... und mear.......

More Adolf Hitler - "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it".

Do you know what? It works!

"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach." Entirely correct

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This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise.

Stalin to Tito and Djilas,
April, 1945

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We believe that Almighty God has sent us Adolf Hitler so that he may rid Germany of the hypocrites and Pharisees.

Robert Ley

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'Often,' Goring said, 'I couldn't eat anything again until midnight, because before then I should have vomited in my agitation."

Göring during late WW2 on his visits to Hitler´s HQ where he was usually blamed by Hitler for many things...

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