Famous War-quotations

[aag567]

Admiral King to subordinate- " You ought to be suspicious of someone who won't take a drink or doesn't like women" :p

Mike Strank, Marine Sergeant to his men - "Let's show those bastards a real banzai charge!"

Show your favorite qoutes.

[Tough Ombre 359th]

Could you please use spell check before you post! It's quote not qoute.

"From this day to the ending of the world, we in it shall be remembered, we lucky few, we band of brothers. For he who sheds his blood with me today shall be my brother." Lipton quoting Shakespeare

[Volvulus]

"OK........Let's go."- Dwight D. Eisenhower

[McCoy [1st RB]]

"Flys spread disease, so keep your's buttoned" General Eisenhower.

"NUTS!"

[Volvulus]

haha BoB when ever he say's that it makes me laugh so much,

[NortherlyNanook]

A classic quotation from the coolest general.

"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."
-General George S. Patton


"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking."
- General George S. Patton

[King ragnar]

"There are no unlockable doors, there are no unwinnable wars"
Winston Churchill

[OliverMarshall]

I thought he was talking about our mess bill.....
Anonymous RAF pilot on hearing Churchills speach "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few."
It takes a brave man not to be a hero in the Red Army.
Joseph Stalin
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
Joseph Stalin
The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
Joseph Stalin
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill
Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
Winston Churchill
Clement Attlee is a modest man who has a good deal to be modest about.
Winston Churchill

[DaveP]

A single death is a tragedy,
A million deaths is a statistic


Yeh, so there we are (darn character limit)

[jcoquillon]

"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it"
George Orwell

[BLind^]

"Klotzen, nicht Kleckern !"
Boot'em, don´t spatter'em

Guderian.

[Sgt So and So]

"In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine."
-The Desert Fox, my favorite general:D

[Blame Canada]

"The Russian people stand at the brink of disaster. Under my leadership we will take a great step forward"
- Joseph Stalin (now this is a combination of methaphors that doesn't work :D)

And one that isn't really WWII but I like it so much:

"It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed."
- Vladimir Lenin

[Lozza]

"Americans always try to do the right thing after they've tried everything else." ~Winston Churchill

What a put down!

[DarkCanuck]

"We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!"

There was a quote, i believe by churchill that i cant find. It may or may not being real. the basis of the quote was that the germans were saying that they were going to push the Canadians back into the channel like fish on d-day. To which Churchill responed "Some Fish" , or something like that. Cant find it, anyone know that one?

[DarkCanuck]

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[OliverMarshall]

"We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!"

There was a quote, i believe by churchill that i cant find. It may or may not being real. the basis of the quote was that the germans were saying that they were going to push the Canadians back into the channel like fish on d-day. To which Churchill responed "Some Fish" , or something like that. Cant find it, anyone know that one?

"When I warned them that Britain would fight on alone, whatever they did, their Generals told their Prime Minister and his divided cabinet that in three weeks, England would have her neck wrung like a chicken - Some chicken! Some neck!" -- Speech made to the Canadian Parliament on December 30

[ThomasStewart]

Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.

Fahrkarte bis zur Endstation!! - Ticket to the last station!!

Heinz Guderian

[enigma]

Blood, toil, tears, and sweat


I say to the House as I said to ministers who have joined this government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering.
You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs — Victory in spite of all terrors — Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.

... great speach.

like his other one:


never has so many given so much in such little gravity
heheh :D



and one from the guys who makes beans ....


You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread.
although i hardly live up to that when playing wargames :(

[Crazythumbs]

.."Animals flee this hell, the strongest stones cannot bear it for long, only men endure."

German officer, Stalingrad

[DarkCanuck]

"When I warned them that Britain would fight on alone, whatever they did, their Generals told their Prime Minister and his divided cabinet that in three weeks, England would have her neck wrung like a chicken - Some chicken! Some neck!" -- Speech made to the Canadian Parliament on December 30


nope not that one. that one is about poultry not fish. i think that one is about BoB not d-day.

[NortherlyNanook]

"Americans always try to do the right thing after they've tried everything else." ~Winston Churchill

What a put down!
He was just jealous.


"The Russian people stand at the brink of disaster. Under my leadership we will take a great step forward"
- Joseph Stalin (now this is a combination of methaphors that doesn't work :D)
That was quite chuckleworthy.

[Borus]

Hmm.. Let me stick with the classics

"I have returned." - Gen. Douglas MacArthur
and
"Americans never quit." - Gen. Douglas MacArthur

[Hamilkar]

"They call us the 6th Panzer Army because we have 6 tanks left"
Gen. Sepp Dietrich

[2ltben]

"The general verdict among the German generals I interrogated in 1945 was that Field-Marshal von Manstein had proved the ablest commander in their Army, and the man they had most desired to become its Commander-in-Chief. It is very clear that he had a superb sense of operational possibilities and equal mastery in the conduct of operations, together with a greater grasp of the potentialities of mechanized forces than any other commander who had not been trained in the tank arm. In sum, he had military genius." - Sir Basil Hart

[OliverMarshall]

"We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!"

There was a quote, i believe by churchill that i cant find. It may or may not being real. the basis of the quote was that the germans were saying that they were going to push the Canadians back into the channel like fish on d-day. To which Churchill responed "Some Fish" , or something like that. Cant find it, anyone know that one?

this it?

We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.
Radio broadcast, Dieu Protege La France (21 October 1940)


Also

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.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

[DarkCanuck]

this it?

We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.
Radio broadcast, Dieu Protege La France (21 October 1940)
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nope, lol

[JordanC]

"They call us the 6th Panzer Army because we have 6 tanks left"
Gen. Sepp Dietrich

LOL, never heard that one before but I like it!

[biggles]

"the meaning of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastards die for his!" General George S. Patton

"I shall Return" General Douglas MacArthur

What have you?

This is one said by Churchill, but I don't know it it's during the war or after:
"History will be kind to me, because I intend to write it."

[Hamilkar]

This is one said by Churchill, but I don't know it it's during the war or after:
"History will be kind to me, because I intend to write it."

God I like that ol'bloke. He was quite a character

[Nigma]

"Well, you see, we were on this hill with our last 88, and the americans were sending shermans down that road some 700m downrange. We kept destroying the shermans and the americans kept sending them. After a while, we ran out of ammunition, but the americans did not run out of shermans" - German 88 Flak Battery Commander when asked how it came that he is a POW now, captured in Italy.

“Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election” - A. Hitler

“What luck for leaders that men do not think” - A. Hitler

[biggles]

This is from an American Sergant from the Pacific, can't remebmer his name though. I think he said this during the battle of Guadalcanal:

"Allright. The're on our left. The're on our right. The're in front of us. The're behind us. They will NOT escape this time!"

When Churchill heard about the attack on pearl Harbor: "Pop up the champagne! We have won the war!"

[wolfiejo]

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on"
FDR

[Ripper]

quote by churchill funny but not about war

Cherchill is drunk in the house of commons

Lady "you sir are drunk"
Churchill "you madam are ugly but tommorow i will be sober"

[2ltben]

That was to Lady Astor:D

[Thanato]

"The enemy must be beaten only to the point where he has no more desire and capability to fight. But a foreign nation must believe that attacking Canada would be like sticking its finger into a buzz saw." Chris Vokes, Major-General, "Vokes: My War" (1985)

~Thanato