Author Topic: What's your favorite Military quote? (Read 1593 times)

AWMac · « **Reply #45 on:** January 24, 2008, 12:27:02 AM »

Gotta Luv him.
Semper Fi Chesty. We need more Glorious Bastards like you!

Mac

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #46 on:** January 24, 2008, 12:41:21 AM »

"One of the serious problems in planning the fight against American doctrine, is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine..."
- From a Soviet Junior Lt's Notebook

" Coffee tastes better if the latrines are dug downstream from an encampment."
- US Army Field Regulations, 1861

TomHorn · « **Reply #47 on:** January 24, 2008, 12:48:32 AM »

"RETREAT HELL"!!!! "We're just attacking in another direction"!!!!
USMC General OP Smith, Chosin reservoir....

TH

TomHorn · « **Reply #48 on:** January 24, 2008, 01:05:45 AM »

"Those poor bastages, they've got us right where we want them.... We can shoot in every direction now!!!"
USMC Col Chesty Puller, when informed that the 1st Mar Div was surrounded and cutoff by a chicom field army at Yudom ni...

Bluedog · « **Reply #49 on:** January 24, 2008, 01:15:43 AM »

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Originally posted by RATTFINK

This is one that one of my fellow squaddies troughs out every now and then:

We came here to "KICK ARSE & CHEW BUBBLE GUM... but were all out of BUBBLE GUM!!!!"

I'm sure he got form somewhere.

He would no doubt be a Duke Nukem fan of old then.

John St John....the voice of Duke.

Duke Nukem Sound bites

#33 is the one you are after

TomHorn · « **Reply #50 on:** January 24, 2008, 01:21:01 AM »

I think that line came from Rowdy Roddy Piper...
In the movie, They live....
Back in the 80's.... That was a funny movie too!!!

TH

OOZ662 · « **Reply #51 on:** January 24, 2008, 01:27:47 AM »

"In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it." -Erwin Rommel

"No need to worry, the Swedish pilots in German aircraft with US propellers will make the Soviets think twice before attacking this Finnish base in Sweden with their American bombers." -Kurt Berger

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #52 on:** January 24, 2008, 01:30:05 AM »

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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
"I shall attack the enemy like a ferocious rabbit" General Bernard Montgomery

That line just amused the hell out of the American commanders LOL

Because he was incompetent?

My favorite, is of course...

"Come on you ****ing apes! You want to live forever?"

A WW1 seargent, that I'm having trouble quoting right now. I know where the speaker is described, I just don't have it.

TomHorn · « **Reply #53 on:** January 24, 2008, 01:35:41 AM »

According to the USMC book of lists...
It was:
"Come on you SOB's... Do ya wanna live forever???"
Gsgt Daniel Daly, Belleau Wood 1918.

TH

Excel1 · « **Reply #54 on:** January 24, 2008, 04:30:55 AM »

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Originally posted by rpm
"Damn the torpedoes, Full speed ahead!"- Admiral David Glasgow Farragut

a good quote that tom petty made famous with a great album

straffo · « **Reply #55 on:** January 24, 2008, 04:36:07 AM »

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Originally posted by AKIron
Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out.

or

Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet

This one is very disputed , Arnaud Amaury is supposed to have said that, but no historical source can corroborate this except a book wrote 10 year after the even by a German monk.

Angus · « **Reply #56 on:** January 24, 2008, 04:37:58 AM »

Both political and military.....the master is Churchill.
Here:
"Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job. "

or:

"Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. "

or:

"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."

hehe

...so many

Yknurd · « **Reply #57 on:** January 24, 2008, 05:27:54 AM »

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Originally posted by RATTFINK
Here's a good one that most, don't know the root from wince it came from.

"Veni, Vedi, Vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered)

-Julius Caesar

This is one that one of my fellow squaddies troughs out every now and then:

We came here to "KICK ARSE & CHEW BUBBLE GUM... but were all out of BUBBLE GUM!!!!"

I'm sure he got form somewhere.

That's Roddy Rod Pipe from They Live. Good movie.

Blooz · « **Reply #58 on:** January 24, 2008, 08:42:21 AM »

"If they mean to have a war let it begin here." - Capt. Parker at Lexington

"Scratch one flat top!" - Lt. Cdr. Dixon at Coral Sea

"Send that one to Montgomery." - Gen. Patton after having his photo taken urinating into the Rhine river.

"My God what have we done?" - Capt. Robert Lewis over Hiroshima

"As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational art, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that he's a great military man I want you to know that." Gen. Schwartzkopf 1991 Gulf War

CptTrips · « **Reply #59 on:** January 24, 2008, 12:22:57 PM »

"Bang! ....Good German."

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