Quote of the day II

"Heil Hitler-and good evening to the other ninety-eight per cent of you!"

Werner Finck at Berlin Katakombe cabaret in 1936!

 

"I sleep very well. I would not sacrifice my wife and my children for my sister."

David Greenglass, brother of Ethel Rosenberg

 

"Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here."

MacArthur on December 5,1941 on his troops in the Philippines

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"The Fourth Fighter Group is going to be the top Fighter Group in the Eighth Air Force. We are here to fight. To those who don't believe me I would suggest transferring to another group. I'm going to fly the arse off each one of you. Those who keep up with me, good; those who don't, I don't want them anyway." Don Blakeslee, upon assuming command January 1, 1944.

 

"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
- Attributed to General George Patton Jr

"An army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team.
This individuality stuff is a bunch of bullshit."
- General George Patton Jr

"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure" ---Jacques Chirac, President of France

"The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee." --- Regis Philbin

"The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag." ---David Letterman

Next time there's a war in Europe, the loser has to keep France!!

enjoy!

 

"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
- Attributed to General George Patton Jr

"An army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team.
This individuality stuff is a bunch of bullshit."
- General George Patton Jr

"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure" ---Jacques Chirac, President of France

"The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee." --- Regis Philbin

"The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag." ---David Letterman

Next time there's a war in Europe, the loser has to keep France!!

enjoy!

 

" Quantity has a quality all of its own"

"Uncle Joe" Stalin

 

It will calm you to learn that Germany does not, and did not, want to conquer the Ukraine. We have very limited interests...

Hitler in Danzig on 19th September 1939

 

"Nothing would delight me more than Milch should chance upon the philosopher's stone which our supreme authorities apparently believe is lying around somewhere. We certainly haven't been able to find it."
Richthofen on Milch´s taking responsibility on Stalingrad airlift

 

"Neville, please mind the shop!"

Churchill to Neville Chamberlain when leaving to France for visit

 

"Tell me where have all these Russian prisoners come from?"
Hindenburg on the night Hitler became chancellor and the SA paraded the streets.

 

What puffs and patters?
What clicks and clatters?
I know what, O, what fun!
It's a lovely Gatling-gun!
- Excerpt from picturebook for young children

 

"If I thought of Himmler as a stork in a lillypond then Bormann seemed to me like a pig in a potato field."
Walter Schellenberg

 

"I´ve got an armored plate behind my back, metal legs below and an engine in front of me.How could they hit me?"
Doug Bader to his wife on how to survive in a dogfight...

 

"Eating my words has never given me indigestion"
-Winston Churchill

Churchill visited Richmond, Virginia, where a sculpture of him was being unveiled. A magnificently Rubenesque lady came up to him and cood enthusiatically at him: "Mr Churchill, I want you to know I got up at dawn and drove a hundred miles for the unveiling of your bust". Looking upon her generous endowments, WSC answered, "Madam, I want you to know that I would happily reciprocate the honour."

Sta benne
DUCE

 

Molotov to Ribbentrop during the phoney discussions on dividing the world and the British Empire in 1940....Ribbentrop had already told Molotov in discussions that the war was won, England was powerless and defeated.

Molotov later asked Ribbentrop if the English are defeated and powerless why are we discussing these plans in your personal air raid shelter?

 

"And if need be, some shots in the air and the Finnish Army will run away in panic!"

Stalin before Winter War answering one general´s question if the Finnish Army tried to resist the attack in Nov 1939

 

"The wall is not much yet!"

General Wilhelm Adam on June 26 1938 to Adolf Hitler on the West wall in Berghof

On Aug 27,1938 Adolf Hitler on inspection tour of the West Wall:

"The man who could not hold these fortifications is a Hundsfott (lowly cur)!"

 

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas." Stalin - you gotta love this guy

 

Nice counterpoint to an incident a while ago on a training exercise, a cadet asked the training sgt why no one ever died on these exercises:

'Well thats a stupid question, do you see any yanks around? Exactly! How are you supposed to get killed if there are no yanks around to bomb, shoot or crash into you?'

Hardly a surprise the French didn't want in

A fantastic Woody Allen quote I found the other day:
'I find it difficult to believe in God when just last week I got my tongue trapped in a typewriter roller'

And more in keeping with the thread, a quote from the Russian film "The Beast of War"...

(tank commander lecturing his crew)

"Out of fuel, become a pillbox.
Out of ammunition, become a bunker.
Out of time...become heroes"