Author Topic: Great Military Quotes (Read 2084 times)

funkedup · « **on:** May 01, 2003, 01:22:20 PM »

Found this one in Keegan's History of Warfare:
"Man's greatest good fortune is to chase and defeat his enemy, seize his total possessions, leave his married women weeping and wailing, ride his gelding, and use the bodies of his women as a nightshirt and support." Genghis Khan

ra · « **Reply #1 on:** May 01, 2003, 01:23:41 PM »

I thought Arnold Schwarzeneggar said that?

OIO · « **Reply #2 on:** May 01, 2003, 01:40:59 PM »

Yama Yama, tani tani!

(In every mountain, in every hill)

-Oda Nobunaga in the battle of Mount Hei

a "kill em all" order hehe.

Curval · « **Reply #3 on:** May 01, 2003, 01:45:05 PM »

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Originally posted by ra
I thought Arnold Schwarzeneggar said that?

"...to hear the lamentations of the women."...he he

Arnie's writers stole it...and made it better.

Dowding · « **Reply #4 on:** May 01, 2003, 01:46:45 PM »

"**** you squeakes! Let's get the mother-****ing sons of snail-eaters!"

Henry V

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #5 on:** May 01, 2003, 01:51:04 PM »

"come on you sons of squeakes!! Do you want to live forever?"

Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daily USMC, winner of two medal of honors leading his men on a charge in Bellow wood WW1. (from memory

Dune · « **Reply #6 on:** May 01, 2003, 01:51:28 PM »

"For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business."
-D. W. Brogan, The American Character

Arfann · « **Reply #7 on:** May 01, 2003, 01:55:30 PM »

Goering;

"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."

Animal · « **Reply #8 on:** May 01, 2003, 01:59:09 PM »

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Originally posted by Arfann
Goering;

"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."

Damn you got here faster than me

funkedup · « **Reply #9 on:** May 01, 2003, 02:25:33 PM »

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #10 on:** May 01, 2003, 02:25:36 PM »

"We're neutral!"
- The Swiss
-SW

Dago · « **Reply #11 on:** May 01, 2003, 02:28:44 PM »

"Don't shoot, we surrender"

Numberous French Generals in history.

Sabre · « **Reply #12 on:** May 01, 2003, 02:37:27 PM »

"Tis well that war is so horrible, least we grow to fond of it." General T. Sherman, I think.

"While it is true that no plan survives first contact with the enemy, it is equally true that no one survives first contact with the enemy without a plan." Tom Clancy, from "Red Storm Rising."

A good leader can be wrong, but what he must never be is indecisive." Me.

rpm · « **Reply #13 on:** May 01, 2003, 02:38:55 PM »

"You give me a week and I'll have us in a war with those Commie Bastards and make it look like their fault!" George S. Patton

john9001 · « **Reply #14 on:** May 01, 2003, 02:40:01 PM »

one death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic.
joe stalin