"I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me."

Harry S Truman after FDR´s death on the decisions of the president at the time

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"Piss on them then. We need more speed."

Capt. Douglass Johnson, CO of USS Fanshaw Bay (CVE-70) while attempting to escape an enemy sub and having been informed that his ships boilers had reached their temperature limits.

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Bill Murray
Why do we press harder on the remote control when we know the batteries are getting weak?

I believe it is peace in our time.- Neville Chamberlain, 1938


Later

'Oi! You'll kill someone doing that!'

Harry Seacomb the first time he came under fire.

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There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

"You will usually find that the enemy has three courses open to him, and of these he will adopt the fourth!"

(anonymous)

"Snow is not neutral."

(Frunze Military Academy Maxim)

"No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy."

(Field Marshall Helmuth Carl Bernard von Moltke)

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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

George S. Patton

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

George S. Patton

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'One of the oddest [stories in circulation] concerned the colonel or general in the Air Force whose duty required that he stay in the reluctant comfort on the ground and who ate his heart out to be with his "boys" out on mission over Germany among the red flak. It was hard, stern duty that kept him grounded, and much harder than flying missions. I don't know where this one started, but it doesn't sound as though it came from enlisted personnel. I never met a bomber crew which wouldn't have taken on this sterner duty at the drop of a hat. They may have been a little wild, but they weren't that crazy.' (John Steinbeck, 1943, well before Heller)

"On land I am a hero. At sea I am a coward."

Adolf Hitler

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The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
Adolf Hitler

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
Adolf Hitler

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An angel's blessing prepares a warrior better then a thousand military drills ever could

The Difference Between A Sinner and a Saviour is Usually a Matter of Modivation

Gimme the goods and I´ll go through that wall like shit through a sieve!

General Patton on West Wall Sept 1944

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"Only poets make strategy without budgets"

"To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat."

Giulio Douhet

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It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion.

Joseph Göbbels

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" Haven´t you read Schlieffen? How can you direct a battle without table, maps and telephone?"

General Beck in 1937 to General Guderian on warfare...

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"I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro."

-- General Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970),

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Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

Erwin Rommel

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If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.

Bernard Law Montgomery

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/au...ontgomery.html

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"When the Americans start using 155s as sniper weapons, it is time to give up."

German commander of Aachen autumn 1944

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Not quite on topic but this is a link to an example of how we are doing that now.

155mm sniper

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PEOPLE SLEEP PEACEABLY IN THEIR BEDS AT NIGHT ONLY BECAUSE ROUGH MEN STAND READY TO DO VIOLENCE ON THEIR BEHALF. GEORGE ORWELL

"Personally I am enjoying a very interesting battle, but we ought to be in tears at the tragedy of the whole thing."

Montgomery Dec 23rd 1944

http://www.angelfire.com/my/rememberww2/1944/12/23.htm

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Just love those Stalin quotes....



A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.

Stalin

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/au...ph_stalin.html

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"I am rather busy, get an actor to do it."

Winston Churchill

After the Dunkirk evacuation, Churchill delivered his memorable 'WE shall never surrender' speech to the House of Commons. Later in the day, the speech was broadcast by the BBC to the rest of the world. What the listeners didn't know was that the speech was read by 37 year old actor Norman Shelley of the BBC repertory staff who impersonated Churchill's voice.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan/facts.html

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