Famous War quotes

[the_alcatraz]

"We should declare war on North Vietnam. . . .We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas."

- Ronald Reagan, 1965

 

[dabuffguy]

"You don't win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making the other guy die for his country!"

 

[the_alcatraz]

"Onward we stagger, and if the tanks come, may God help the tanks."

- Col. William O. Darby, U.S. Rangers

 

[Spartacus]

"My men are the products of total war, grown up in the streets of scattered towns without any education. The only thing they knew was to handle weapons for the Reich. They were young people with a hot heart and the desire to win or die: right or wrong – my country. When seeing today the defendants in the dock, don't believe them to be the old Kampfgruppe Peiper. All of my old friends and comrades have gone before. The real outfit is waiting for me in Valhalla."

 

[Spartacus]

"We gained 22,000 square miles of territory. Just enough to bury our dead"
-Soviet General, 1940

 

[the_alcatraz]

"My fellow Americans. I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."

President Reagan, before a scheduled radio broadcast,
unaware that the microphone was already on

 

[Spartacus]

"I fear all we have done is awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve"

- Admiral Yamamoto after Pearl Harbor

 

[Spartacus]

" You talk the talk. Do you walk the walk?"

 

[the_alcatraz]

"The Pope! how many divisions has he got?"
- Stalin

In 1935, a French visitor asked Soviet leader Josef Stalin if he thought Pope Pius XI might prove to be an ally.

 

[Spartacus]

"Onward we stagger, and if the tanks come, may God help the tanks."

- Col. William O. Darby, U.S. Rangers

Unknown tanker instructor, Ft. Knox Armor School: "When the enemy is within range, remember...so are you."

 

[the_alcatraz]

"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time"
- Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC

When the Marines were cut off behind enemy lines and the Army had written the 1st Marine Division off as being lost because they were surrounded by 22 enemy divisions. The Marines made it out inflicting the highest casualty ratio on an enemy in history and destroying 7 entire enemy divisions in the process. An enemy division is 16500+ men while a Marine division is 12500 men.

 

[Spartacus]

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog"
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 1958. Republican National Convention

 

[Spartacus]

When you get and face an anti-war protester, look him in the eye and shake his hand. Then, wink at his girlfriend, because she knows she's dating a pussy.
General Tommy Franks

 

[Spartacus]

"Out of every 100 men, 10 should not be there, 80 are nothing but targets, and 9 are the real fighters and we are blessed to have them, for they the battle make. Ah, but one, ONE of them is a warrior, and he will bring the others home." -Heraclitus 500BC.

 

[squatmonkey]

When you get and face an anti-war protester, look him in the eye and shake his hand. Then, wink at his girlfriend, because she knows she's dating a pussy.
General Tommy Franks

You must spread karma around blah blah blah

 

[Spartacus]

"If you want peace, prepare for war" - An ancient Roman expression, derived from "Epitoma Rei Militaris," by Vegetius. In Latin: "Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum." Literal Translation: "Therefore, whoever wishes for peace, let him prepare for war."

"I went into the British Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I believe now that if you prepare for war, you get war." -- Major-General Frederick B. Maurice

"The purpose of all war is ultimately peace." - Saint Augustine

"War does not decide who is right, war decides who is left" - Bertrand Russell

 

[RottenWillow]

When you get and face an anti-war protester, look him in the eye and shake his hand. Then, wink at his girlfriend, because she knows she's dating a pussy.
General Tommy Franks

Like them all but this one. Franks sounds like a 15 yo punk.

 

[Spartacus]

Like them all but this one. Franks sounds like a 15 yo punk.

he is a schmoo

 

[Spartacus]

"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Orator - 106-43 B.C.

 

[Spartacus]

"I recognize that after the battles of Normandy my unit was composed mainly of young, fanatical soldiers. A good deal of them had lost their parents, their sisters and brothers during the bombing. They had seen for themselves in Köln thousands of mangled corpses after a terror raid had passed. Their hatred for the enemy was such; I swear it and I could not always keep it under control."

Joachim Peiper