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Old February 1st, 2006, 09:02 PM
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“I think that if I give him everything that I possibly can and ask nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he won’t try to annex anything and will work for a world of democracy and peace.”

FDR on Stalin

"The war shall soon be over. We shall recover in fifteen or twenty years, and then we'll have another go at it."

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Old February 3rd, 2006, 10:55 AM
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"Quantity has a quality all its own"

Josif Stalin
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Old February 3rd, 2006, 11:17 AM
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If you suggest revolutionary ideas, he will say in 95 per cent of cases: 'Yes': at once.

General Freiherr von Geyr, on Heinz Guderian as a military commander.

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Old February 12th, 2006, 06:02 PM
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Time flys like an arrow,
Fruit flies, like a banana.
Groucho Marx

All evil needs to succeed is for good men to do nothing.
Sir Edmund Blake

If you want a look into the future, picture a boot on someones face forever!
George Orwell

Cloths make the man, naked people have little or no effect upon society.
Mark Twain

The best way to have a good idea, is to have lots of ideas.
Linus Pauling

Endings to be useful, must be inconclusive.
Samuel R. DeLaney

Anywhere is within walking distance, if you have the time.
Steven Wright

Don't say you agree with me, because when people agree with me, I always feel that I must be wrong
Oscar Wilde

Always get married eary in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven;t wasted the whole day.
Mickey Rooney

Once during prohibition I was forced to live on food and water for several days.
W.C.Fields
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I like the last one alot !!
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Old February 13th, 2006, 09:11 PM
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In Capitolism, man exploits man.
In Communism, it's just the opposite.
John Kenneth Galbreth

Men like women with a past, they hope history will repeat itself.
Mae West

If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we know?
Steven Wright

I don't know the secret to success, but the secret to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

If you want to read about love & marriage, you'll have to buy to different books.
Alan King

Communism is best handled from 35,000 feet.
Curtis LeMay

Outside of a dog, a book is mans best friend, inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Graucho Marx
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I was under the impression that quotes here were to be somewhat related to WW II...
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It's just humor to lighten the mood. I'll put any more in free fire zone. Sorry for the offense, I only meant it for YUKS.
I thought the Curtis LeMay one was good!
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Old February 14th, 2006, 08:36 PM
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Never do people lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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Quote:
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It's just humor to lighten the mood. I'll put any more in free fire zone. Sorry for the offense...
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As our boat touchaed sand and the ramp went down I became a visitor to hell.



Private Harry Parley on Omaha beach
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"This place is as good as a fountain of youth for me!"

Field Marshal von Greim during the last days in the Führerbunker to Koller.

"This whole place is a lunatic asylum " replied Koller.
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"You´re a little ***** who has set himself up with some small factories and brothels in Japan."

Stalin´s reaction to Sorge´s message that Germany is about to attack the USSR
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good quote selection kai i can only seem to think of churchill quotes...
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Could be a repeat, but seems pertinant

War does not teach us to love our enemies, but to hate oue allies.
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"The little matter of operational command on the eastern front is something anyone can do!"

Adolf Hitler Dec 1941
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"One death is a tragedy; A million is a statistic"
Stalin

"Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat"
Churchill

"the secret of war lies in the communications"
Napoleon Bonaparte

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake"
Napoleon Bonaparte

"When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use"
Stalin
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Ethnic problems inside the SS...

"Don´t send me any more Lithuanians" wrote SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Magill of the SS-Sonder battalion ( later Dirlewanger ) to his superiors on 17th march 1943, " because my Russian soldiers keep shooting them!"
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.


China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.


Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

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Pecunia non olet

( = Money does not stink )

Describing the attitude of the Wallenberg brothers in WW2 ( Jacob, Marcus )
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"Himmler´s got a brain. Its name is Reinhard (Heydrich)."

Hermann Göring
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"I have no regrets."

Rudolf Hess before the Nuremberg tribunal
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