Favorite Military quotes?

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  1. Karakoran Well-Known Member

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    William Wallace: Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!
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    "NUTS!"
    General Anthony McAuliffe
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    "The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices."
    - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

    "There is nothing impossible, to him who will try."
    - Alexander the Great

    "Greater things are believed of those who are absent."
    - Tacitus

    "It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought."
    - Scipio Africanus

    "The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril."
    - Xenophon
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    "Nuts" Battle Of The Bulge
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    'Only the dead have seen the end of war.'

    Plato?
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    If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
    Friederich II
    "If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves"
    Josef Stalin
    "The Pope? How many divisions has he got?"
    Josef Stalin
    "Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning"
    Erwin Rommel
    "If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and aeroplanes."
    Josef Stalin
    "I trust no one, not even myself"
    Josef Stalin
    "History shows that there are no invincible armies"
    Josef Stalin
    "WWIII will be fought with Nukes WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones"
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    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.
    George S. Patton

    War! that mad game the world so loves to play.
    Jonathan Swift

    It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
    Voltaire

    I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
    George McGovern
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    "The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."

    - George Orwell
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    That is not you're concern...
    "Veni Vidi Vici" -Caesar
  10. MayorEmanuel Do not weep, for salvation is coming.

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    These are great days we're living, bros. We are jolly green giants, walking the Earth with guns. These people we wasted here today are the finest human beings we will ever know. After we rotate back to the world, we're gonna miss not having anyone around that's worth shooting.
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    Isn't that from Full Metal Jacket?
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    Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.
    - General George Patton Jr
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    That is not you're concern...
    "What? Men dodging this way from single bullets? They couldn't hit an elephant at that distance!"
    - US commander prior to getting shot by a sniper

    "All war is deception"
    - Sun Tzu, Chinese general and author of The Art of War

    "If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army"
    - Frederick II the Great, King of Prussia

    "We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends"
    - P.D. James, British author

    "Gentlemen of France, perhaps you would care to fire first?"
    - Lord Hay, British general, Battle of Fontenoy, 1745
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    A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
    napoleon



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    (Replying to a British taunt to surrender) "I have not yet begun to fight" -John Paul Jones

    "I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!" -John Paul Jones (While on a sinking ship)

    "Courage- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and the mental willingness to endure it." William T. Sherman

    "Every attempt to make war easy and safe will only result in humiliation and disaster." William T. Sherman

    "I am tired and sick of war. Its glory and its moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot or heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell." William T. Sherman

    "I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the battlefield and have your name misspelled in the newspapers." William T. Sherman

    "If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure that we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast." William T. Sherman

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    Also, any and all quotes by George S. Patton
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    "I like a man who grins when he fights."
    Winston Churchill
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    "Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!" ~ General William T. Sherman
    "The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts." ~ General Omar N. Bradley
    "Victory belongs to the most persevering." ~Napoleon Bonaparte
    "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." ~ Winston Churchill
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    Anything by George S. Patton is the best.
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    War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
    Thomas Mann


    Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?
    Daniel Joseph Daly

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