Favorite Military quotes?

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  1. stupified619 Well-Known Member

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    "If they mean to have a war, let it begin here."-Captain John Parker, Massachusetts Militia commander at Lexington
    "I have beat them, I have beat all the Americans"-King George III, just before the Battle of Saratoga
    "Your little army...has met the grand army of the enemy and routed it...We have taught them a lesson in their invasion of the sacred soil of Virginia"-Jefferson Davis
    "...we can die but once. This is the time and place."-Union commander William H. Lyle
    "Humanity is mad! It must be mad to do what it is doing. Hell cannot be so terrible."-French Lieutenant Alfred Joubaire at the Battle of the Somme
    "Gentlemen, you have fought like lions and been led by donkeys"-General Rommel to captured British officers after Tobruk
    "The entire world is arrayed against us."-General Erwin Rommel to Adolf Hitler, July 1944
    "Fuck."-I'm pretty sure someone said this in a war.
    stupified619, Dec 11, 2011
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  2. GeneralofCarthage Well-Known Member

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    You beat me to it
    GeneralofCarthage, Dec 11, 2011
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  3. Vassilli1942 Well-Known Member

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    "What a bloodbath, what horrid images, what a slaughter. I just cannot find the words to express my feelings. Hell cannot be this dreadful" ~ Alberst Joubaire, French soldier at Verdun
    "Retreat, hell, We just got here" ~Capt. Williams response to a French officers after showing him orders to retreat.
    "Don't die on the beaches, die up on the bluff if you have to die. but get off the beaches or you're sure to die!" ~ Gen. Normam Cota, D-Day Omaha Beach
    Vassilli1942, Dec 11, 2011
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    "We will choke the streets with our dead before we surrender."
    Karakoran, Dec 11, 2011
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  5. Romulus211 Proconsul

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    I heard that quote in a movie just the other day I can't remember which...
    Romulus211, Dec 12, 2011
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  6. Toast Well-Known Member

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    "Knock him out, spoil his prospects and pinch his weapon."
    Royal Marine Commando unarmed combat training video
    Toast, Dec 12, 2011
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  7. Vassilli1942 Well-Known Member

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    I really don't know what movie because this quotes from the battle of Belleau Wood and I have never herd of a movie that was about Belleau Wood. Come to think about it the only movie that I know thats about Americans in World War I is The Lost Battalion but thats about the meuse argonne offensive.
    Vassilli1942, Dec 12, 2011
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    I remember now, It was in a movie called "The battle for Los Angeles" it was the motto for the regiment.
    Romulus211, Dec 12, 2011
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    "A man will fight long and hard for a piece of colored ribbon" -Napoleon Bonaparte
    iPapaSmurf, Dec 12, 2011
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  10. Vassilli1942 Well-Known Member

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    "Never in the face of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few."
    - Winston Churchill
    "A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."
    - Winston Churchill
    "I would rather he had given me one more divison"
    - Rommel, when Hitler made him a Field Marshall
    "In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason"
    - Ernest Hemingway
    Vassilli1942, Dec 12, 2011
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  11. Toast Well-Known Member

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    "This chapter is going to kill and maim more people than all the rest put together, because people just refuse to take things seriously."
    The 1971 Anarchist Cookbook on Explosives and Boobytraps

    I love this. It sounds so much like me. The whole book as a whole made me chuckle quite a bit.
    Toast, Dec 13, 2011
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  12. Viking Socrates I am Mad Scientist

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    Great book though some of there Explosives don't work.
    Viking Socrates, Dec 13, 2011
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    Most of them do, however, and you must bear in mind that this was produced in 1971. The household substitutes guide is especially useful. I would research further for most of the substances before I plan on making them in accordance to the Anarchist Cookbook, but it's good at giving a general idea, you just have to use common sense. The drugs guides are also very useful.
    Toast, Dec 13, 2011
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  14. Viking Socrates I am Mad Scientist

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    There is quite a bit of cases of idiots not doing research on there explosives or chemicals and doing it straight from the cookbook its self (Yeah you can guess where that turns out)

    I want to see the FBI report on the book myself, oh yeah and then read it at school to see what happens. the funny part is the guy who wrote it regrets that he did.
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    I certainly don't. Best instructional book ever. He was just brainwashed by Christians.

    http://www.governmentattic.org/4docs/FBI-AnarchistsCookbook_1971-1999.pdf
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    Viking Socrates, Dec 13, 2011
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    "The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire" ~ Gen. Ferdinand Foch
    "Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value" ~ Gen. Ferdinand Foch
    (Sorry Gen. Foch but Airplanes are really important to warfare lol)
    Vassilli1942, Dec 14, 2011
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  18. The Evil Major Well-Known Member

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    "Peace for our time"
    Neville Chamberlain
    Speech at Heston Airport (30 September, 1938).

    Epic Fail.

    Well it's not really a military quote...
    The Evil Major, Dec 16, 2011
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    Also...

    "Deus vult!" (God wills it!)
    Pope Urban II
    Council of Clermont, November 27, 1095.
    Started the 1st Crusade
    The Evil Major, Dec 16, 2011
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  20. Vassilli1942 Well-Known Member

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    Just to tell you don't double post use the Edit button
    Vassilli1942, Dec 16, 2011
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