Quote of the day III

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

Harry S. Truman

 

We shall meet again. I have believed in God.
I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.

Adolf Eichmann

 

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

Harry S. Truman

 

"What the thinker thinks, the prover proves."

or rather, if you want to believe something you can always find a way to make it true.

 

"Hell is on us."
Mamoru Shigemitsu - Japanese Foreign Minister's comments at the capture of Saipan - June 1944

 

"We need only a very limited briefing. We know how bad the situation is."

Albert Speer in 1942 in a meeting of the Central Planning Board devoted to the fuel situation

 

"you will never go broke underestimating peoples intelligence"

- P.T. Barnum

 

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

Omar Bradley

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Sure about that?

 

“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”
- Dalai Lama

 

" Who was Dönitz? A little Admiral who could negotiate a peace."

Göring post-war

 

"sweet and seemly is it todie for one's country"

buttes cemetery polygon wood Belgium.

 

maybe long but I always loved this Iron maiden song:

Trace your way back 50 years
To the Glow of Dresden - blood and tears
In the black above by the cruel searchlight
Men will die and men will fight - yeah!
Who shot who and who fired first?
Dripping death to whet the blood thirst
No radar lock on - skin and bone
The bomber boys are going home

[Chorus]
Climb into the sky never wonder why - Tailgunner
You're a Tailgunner
[repeat]

Nail that Fokker kill that son,
Gonna blow your guts out with my gun,
The weather forecasts good for War
Cologne and Frankfurt? have some more!
Tail end Charlie in the boiling sky
The Enola Gay was my last try
Now that this Tailgunner's gone
No more Bombers (just one big bomb)

tailgunner - Iron maiden

 

We have bigger houses and smaller families; more convenience, but less time.
We have degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more medicine, but less healthiness.
We have been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbour.
We built more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less human communication.
We have become long on quantity, but short on quality.
These are times of fast foods, and slow digestion; tall man and short character; steep profits, and shallow relationships.
It is a time when there is much in the window and nothing in the room."
- Dalai Lama

 

We roll across France in less time than it takes Monty to say 're-group' and here we sit stuck in the mud of Lorraine.

Patton

 

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

Harry S. Truman

 

" The most difficult thing in war is to begin again the next day "

Jacques Andrieux, a French fighter pilot

 

" Give me forty divisions. Give me a force so strong as to fear nothing, and I will drive through to the heart- to Berlin, and so end the German war!"

Monty in Aug 1944

 

Monty! And who would ever accuse him of being too cautious?!

Give me a force so strong as to fear nothing

Really stickin' the ole' neck out THERE now, aren't we?

-whatever

-Lou

 

" We have a wonderful system worked out, I stay home with the telephones , and my General goes out and fights with the troops!"

"Slim Jim" Gavin´s chieff of staff Colonel Weinecke on their co-operation

 

" My country has been smashed! This is the work of 30 years of Marxism!"

Petain to his friend Franco just before returning to France May 1940