Quote of the day III

"Well, at least I got to live conveniently for 12 years!" H Göring after being arrested by Allied troops in 1945

 

I've got three:
"Walk softly but carry a big stick" Teddy Roosevelt

"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his" Gen. Patton

"If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen." Pres. Truman

 

One from Ted Kennedy, the only one I like from Teddy.
For every complex problem there is a simple solution.....and it's always wrong!

 

" In the army nobody s***s and there are no whores or lice! "

From the book Ivan´s war the "truth"

 

From uncle Joe

The Pope, how many divisions has he got?

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allowed them to have ideas?

Die, but do not retreat

 

" The aeroplane can no more eliminate the submarine than a crow can fight a mole!"

Admiral Dönitz in Aug 1942 after some failed bombings of the U-boat pens

 

"Politics is too serious a matter to trust it to the military" Clemenceau during the Great War

 

Another from Uncle Joe,

It doesn't matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes!

 

The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once.

Isoroku Yamamoto

 

A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander.

- General Omar Bradley

 

It doesn't matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes!

Hey that was George W's 2000 election slogan !

 

The irony is significant.
BTW... No one I ever voted for ever came close!
So if you like America, don't thank me...,
and if you hate America, don't blame me...
Keeping with the theme,
"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information."
Winston Churchill

 

Don't know if posted before but check out my signature.

 

" I always said that the only thing leaflet raids would achieve would be to supply Germany with toilet paper for the rest of the war!"

Sir Arthur Harris

 

" If you can´t trust your lucky star for your personal safety then you have no right to believe that destiny has called you for greater things!"

Richthofen to Göring in Feb 1943 when the latter was reluctant to visit the frontline to see how things really were....

 

" A bit pathetic, but I am the TOP general!!"

Richthofen in his diary after having won a tactical discussion against Manstein.

 

" As things are at present, operationally speaking, we are nothing more than highly paid noncommissioned officers!"

Richthofen on decisions regarding helping the 6th Army in November-December 1942

 

" Oh you´d be surprised what they can carry!"

Crew members of Mosquito planes to the drivers who by mistake took their cargo ( the first Tallboy bombs ) to the Mosquito Unit´s bomb storage area and wondered how anyone could get a Tallboy onto of those...

 

" Gentlemen,

If you dropped a stick of bombs spaced within three inches of the pattern you want, and they landed in a field fifty yards from my office, they would probably break down the windows. If you dropped one 10,000 lb bomb and missed by 500 yards, you would at least blow the complete roof off the building!"

Roy Chadwick, the designer of the Lancaster bomb bay telling about his views why use bigger bombs....

 

"I think I dropped already!"

From the cartoon movie Valiant when asked if they're ready to drop out of a plane....