Quote of the day II

Germany may take our freedom but
Russia will take our souls!

From a document a Polish slogan 1939 before the war

 

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Albert Einstein

 

"If I was Himmler I would not mention a thing about race!"

another top nazi leader...

 

"First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.

by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945

http://www.hoboes.com/html/FireBlade/Politics/niemoller.shtml

 

We have women in the military, but they don't put us in the front lines. They don't know if we can fight, if we can kill. I think we can. All the general has to do is walk over to the women and say, "You see the enemy over there? They say you look fat in those uniforms."
- Elayne Boosler

 

“A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.”
Patton

“Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.”
Patton

We are not retreating -- we are advancing in another direction.
General Douglas MacArthur(This guy was cool also)

Kai, I love the one about Albert Einstein....unfortunately, it's the brutal truth.

V\R TRB

 

I think the third quote was actually Chesty Puller at Chosin Resevoir.

 

"We have tested ourselves before God and it must be done, for that man is evil incarnate." - Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg

 

"We wished to light the torch of life and now we stand in a sea of flames."

Last words in a farewell letter to his wife

Count Peter Yorck von Wartenburg

Cousin of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
Major figure in the Kreisau Circle

 

"You should have become a priest instead!"

Stalin´s mother in 1934 commenting on Stalin´s violent acts to his son...

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"You should not try to act the lawyer or you´ll end up in the prison yourself!"

Stalin to his daughter on her asking why her aunts had been sent to the prison

 

What an idiot, plus, wasn't his dad a pilot in the Pacific War?

 

It was a lover's quarrel. Just a small domestic spat that got out of hand.....

 

'Veni Vedi Vici' - Julius Caeser

What a guy!

 

“We retreated too fast for them!”

Gerd von Rundstedt, newly appointed OB West, in September 1944

 

"In abcense of orders go find something and kill it"
Field Marshall Erwin Rommel

[ 18. August 2004, 04:53 PM: Message edited by: 5-0-duce ]

 

What an idiot, plus, wasn't his dad a pilot in the Pacific War? </font>[/QUOTE]uh yes but if you look at us and Japan we do have good relations now.... so why would that make him an idiot when he speaks the truth?

 

Having good relations "now" (stretching it back, since VJ-day 59 years ago...) does not mean there have been good relations for "a century and a half", unless you want to include good relations episodes such as the Bataan Death March

 

sorry my bad i was talking about post war

 

Best Bush quote is from the Bush Snr. 'Read my lips no more taxes'.

Or I heard the one about Faranhite 9/11 where he is on the golf course (does someone know it?) when he talks about terroism and then says, now watch this drive!

 

"He was the best clerk I ever had."

General MacArthur on General Eisenhower

http://www.pattonhq.com/unknown/chap06.html