Quote of the day III

"The indictment knocked me on the head. First of all, I hand no idea at all about 90 per cent of the accusations in it. The crimes are horrible beyond belief, if they are true."

Alfred Jodl during the Nuremberg trials

 

"Yes, madam, I am finished. My star has fallen. I work and I try, yet know that all is but a farce.... "

Mussolini in 1945

 

" My estimate is that the war will be won in a fortnight!"

Erwin Rommel 24 May 1940

 

" War does not determine who is right - only who is left. "

Bertrand Russell

 

"The Boy Stirling is mad. Quite, quite mad. However in war there is often a place for mad people."

Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery

V27N4 - Personality Profile: David Stirling

 

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway

 

"Ah, the bloody beast is dead!"

Churchill when heard of Mussolini´s fate

 

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Ernest Hemingway

 

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Herbert Hoover

 

You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.

Joseph Stalin

 

I think war might be God's way of teaching us geography. ~Paul Rodriguez

 

"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election."
Otto Von Bismarck

 

"If you return from a mission with a victory, but without your Rottenflieger, you have lost your battle."

Dietrich "Dieter" Hrabak

Dieter Hrabak

 

"Peace is going to be hell on me."
-George S. Patton

 

"The little matter of operational command on the eastern front is something anyone can do!"

Adolf Hitler Dec 1941

 

"Never has a military operation been undertaken so much against the will of the commanders."

Count Ciano - Italian Foreign Minister (Commenting on the Italian Advance into Egypt) - September 1940

 

"Never in history has the navy landed an army at the planned time and place. But if you land us anywhere within 50 miles of Fedela and within 1 week of D-Day. I'll go ahead and win."

Major General George Patton - November 1942 (Commenting of the North Africa Landings)

 

"The enemy knows that he must wipe out our fighters. Once he has done that, he will be able to play football with the German people."

Field Marshal Erhard Milch - 1943

 

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

General Douglas Macarthur - Supreme Allied Commander of South-West Pacific - (Speaking of the Philippines) 5th December 1940

 

"It is on this beautiful day that we celebrate the Fuhrers birthday and thank him for he is the only reason why Germany is still alive today"

Josef Goebbels - Ministry of Propaganda - 20th April 1945