Hello McPhee,

That was close, I remember it just because I think it's the funniest thing a Marine ever said;

"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us... they can't get away this time."

"Chesty" Puller USMC, when surrounded by japs.

Take care,

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All the Best
Jack

"Every anarchist is a baffled dictator. "

Benito Mussolini

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"In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it" - Erwin Rommel

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Bah!

"Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself."

Patton

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"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."

Patton

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"The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided." - Horatio Nelson

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Bah!

"Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the Goddamned cowards and we will have a nation of brave men."

Patton

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"Dogs, do you want to live forever?" - Frederick II

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Bah!

"You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag.

Patton

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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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To wage war, you need first of all money; second, you need money, and third, you also need money.

Prince Montecuccoli

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"Since the generals have failed to do anything, it´s now up to the colonels!"

Stauffenberg autumn 1943

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Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little while longer.

U.S. Navy Seabees

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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Charles De Gaulle

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Ahhh,well it was quite a long time ago when I read that quote,so I guess my memory is holding up reasonably well.

Thanks for correcting me though.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

Benito Mussolini

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"It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do."

Benito Mussolini

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Can't find the original source, probably another anonymous altruism but, when asked as to what makes a person nasty?

This "Pithy" little trilogy emerges...

Gold in their hand, steel at their throat, or wool over their eyes.

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"Danger Will Robinson!"

" The cover of the tomb is closing upon us"

German officer at Stalingrad ( probably late January 43 )

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