Military Quotes

[Cruelbreed]

I'll start it off with one I found interesting.

"To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

please share quotes, all shared quotes will be placed on a much better organized page at a later date.

[ghost]

Si Vis Pacem Parabellum -

If you seek peace, prepare for war!

[Skypig]

"It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it." - Robert E. Lee

[Mel]

"War will cease when men refuse to fight."
- Fridtjof Hansen

[Mel]

For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.-Dwight D. Eisenhower

[Cruelbreed]

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797), British statesman

[Cruelbreed]

"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 Patton Jr

[Cruelbreed]

"Come on you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?"
Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly, 4 june 1918.
Leading Marines at Belleu Wood.
Later Daly told a Marine Historian,
"What I really yelled was: For Christ's sake, men-COME ON!
Do you want to live forever?"
Dan Daly served with Marine Fourth Brigade in WW1.
Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daley was awarded two Medals of Honor and a lot of other awards/medals.
Dan Daly is still one of the great legends of the Marines.
http://www.mclm.com/tohonor/ddaly.html (http://www.mclm.com/tohonor/ddaly.html)



and philosopher

[Cruelbreed]

From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.
--Thomas Jefferson--

[Cruelbreed]

Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

[greenmamba]

"Fuck surrender"

LT Michael Patrick Murphy U.S. Navy Seals ( â€* 28. Juni 2005)
During his last firefight.

[Mel]

"The power of example is very important to people under stress."
- General Sir John Hackett, British Army

[Mel]

I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink.
- Admiral William Halsey

[Mel]

"Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy."
- Helvetius

[bobdina]

your on a roll Mel

[nastyleg]

NUTS!

Anthony Clement McAuliffe
General, United States Army

[nastyleg]

"In war there is no second prize for the runner-up."
-General Omar N. Bradley ,U.S. Army, 1950

[Cruelbreed]

• Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
- David Hackworth Link

[Cruelbreed]

We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction.

[Mel]

• Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
- David Hackworth Link
I like that one, never heard it before.

[Mel]

"Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates."
- F.E. Adcock, British classical scholar

[Mel]

It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.
- Thomas B. Aldrich, 1836-1907

[Mel]

"Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you."
- Yassir Arafat

[Cruelbreed]

It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.
- Thomas B. Aldrich, 1836-1907

truth here.

[Mel]

your on a roll MelThanks Bob!!! Don't stop now Cruelbreed you were smokin.

[Cruelbreed]

--Paperwork will ruin any military force. General Chesty Puller.

[Cruelbreed]

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. Ernest Hemingway.



This reminds me of what needs to be done with the wars today.

[Cruelbreed]

--I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat....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. Sir Winston Churchill

[Cruelbreed]

--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 Patton.

[Cruelbreed]

--In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it. Erwin Rommel.

[Mel]

That's what I mean.

[Mel]

"Threats without power are like powder without ball."
- Nathan Bailey

[Mel]

"We ain't making no goddamn cornflakes here."
- Col. Charlie Beckwith, founder of Delta Force

[Mel]

"Will screw them hard, fast, and in an elegant manner."
Major General Haim Bar-Lev prior to the 1967 war (he was a General at the time).

[Cruelbreed]

"I want you boys to hurry up and whip these Germans so we can get out to the Pacific to kick the s**t out of the purple-pissing Japanese, before the Godda**ed MARINES get all the credit!"
LTGEN PATTON, USA 1945

[Cruelbreed]

"We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!"
CHESTY PULLER, USMC

[Cruelbreed]

"Come on, you sons of b*****! Do you want to live forever?"
GySgt. DANIEL DALY, USMC

[Cruelbreed]

"American Parachutists...devils in baggy pants...are less than 100 meters from my outpost line. I can't sleep at night; they pop up from nowhere and we never know when or how they will strike next. Seems like the black-hearted devils are everywhere..."
(An entry in a German officer's diary found after the Battle of Anzio)

[nastyleg]

"We never really let the Germans know who won the war. They are being told that their army was stabbed in the back, betrayed, that their army had not been defeated. The Germans never believed they were beaten. It will have to be done all over again...."
Pershing in 1923 on the prospects of another war.

[nastyleg]

Up men! And to your posts! And let no man forget today, that you are from Old Virginia!
Col. Pickett 3July just before his infamous charge(ordered by Gen Lee) in which my ancestor died in. Siler City NC was named after him

[Mel]

Damn Cruelbreed,and Nastyleg....You guys are relentless.

[Mel]

Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs
- Ambrose Bierce

[Mel]

"Next stop Kuwait! We're going to go fast and go violently!"
- Lieutenant-General Walter E. Boomer, 15 February 1991.
To his staff shortly before Desert Storm

[Mel]

"I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie."
- H. Rap Brown, press conference 1967

[Cruelbreed]

“We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those that would do us harm.� generally attributed to George Orwell.

[Cruelbreed]

"Those d- Russians, they captured smarter Germans then we did!" - An American General upon hearing about Sputnic

[Cruelbreed]

Not really military.. but I believe Greek or Spartan.. prob came out of the movie 300 for all I know lol.

"Let's have a nice breckfast boys because we'll all be having dinner in Hell."

[Cruelbreed]

"When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.
- U.S. Marine Corps

[Cruelbreed]

"Cluster bombing from B-52s are very, very accurate. The bombs are
guaranteed to always hit the ground."
- USAF Ammo Troop

[Cruelbreed]

"It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just
bombed."
- U.S. Air Force Manual

[Cruelbreed]

"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never
encountered automatic weapons."
- General MacArthur

[Cruelbreed]

"Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo."
- Infantry Journal

[Cruelbreed]

"You, you, and you ... Panic. The rest of you, come with me."
- U.S. Marine Corp Gunnery Sgt.

[Cruelbreed]

"If you see a bomb technician running, follow him."
- USAF Ammo Troop

[nastyleg]

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
Gen. Robert E Lee

[nastyleg]

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
Gen. Robert E Lee

[Cruelbreed]

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
Gen. Robert E Lee

Wise man, that's the truth. Someone that needs policy to be honest is bound to do something dishonest.

[nastyleg]

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
John Adams

[nastyleg]

couldn't agree more....little known fact about Gen Lee...ONLY graduate of West Point to graduate w/o a single demarate.

[nastyleg]

A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.
Sen.Barry Goldwater

[nastyleg]

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

[nastyleg]

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

[nastyleg]

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

[nastyleg]

Here was this vast machinery of government and they didn't know how it ran, where you put in the gas, where you put in the oil, where you turn the throttle.
Maxwell D Taylor-soldier

[nastyleg]

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
Alexander Hamilton

[bobdina]

Sorry it in this version, and sorry if it's been posted before

[Cruelbreed]

Sorry it in this version, and sorry if it's been posted before

That's a very very cool quote Bob. It's funny but quotes like that have value to someone young such as I, it helps teach morals and build character. Believe it or not growing up in this day and age especially where I am from people just don't think this way. In my town in NY nobody talks of patriotism, most look down on military service. Everyone thinks it's all about cars, girls and money and nothing else. Many are snotty, pompous and somehow find pride and glory in the lives of past gangsters. People believe it's wealth that makes or breaks them.


I've always struggled with the feeling as a kid that everything has gone astray, that the value of being brave and honest have dwindled. People now want everything easy with bucketloads of unearned wealth. Who's out for some form of real journey these days? Thank god for the quotes such as these, they reaffirm that sometimes what you feel has often been felt by great men of the past.

Maybe i'm getting carried away but I hope time are a changing.

[Markoxx]

i dont agree with that mate. war is hell and because wars we lost 2 many good ppls. ppl we love and we can never ever see them again. some times a war start cuz a silly reason. 2 have good soldiers depends on the nation itself and the man himself.

[Cruelbreed]

i dont agree with that mate. war is hell and because wars we lost 2 many good ppls. ppl we love and we can never ever see them again. some times a war start cuz a silly reason. 2 have good soldiers depends on the nation itself and the man himself.

yeah i'm not boasting about war just virtues, morals. I know nothing of war so I cannot really speak. Then again much of what I described wasn't exactly written with utmost clarity. It's about standing up sometimes. Either way off topic, moving on!

Come on the forums a little more Markoxx :) Maybe you're more in tune with this quote.


A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King Jr.

[Mel]

All right!!! Bobdina, and Markoxx gettin in on the fun.

[Mel]

"The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to have its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards."
- Sir William Francis Butler

[Mel]

He who loves not his country can love nothing.
- Lord Byron

[Mel]

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action."
- Fidel Castro

[nastyleg]

What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.
Adolf Hitler

[nastyleg]

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
James A Garfield

[nastyleg]

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
James A Garfield

[nastyleg]

All right!!! Bobdina, and Markoxx gettin in on the fun.

Jump in and start quoting others more famous than your self...HAHA

[Mel]

"Wars, conflict, its all business. One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero. Numbers sanctify."
- Charlie Chaplin

[Mel]

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

[Mel]

"Attacking does not merely consist in assaulting walled cities or striking at an army in battle array; it must include the art of assailing the enemy's mental equilibrium."
- Li Ching (571-649 C.E.)

[Cruelbreed]

Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC
They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an
enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can't get away from us now!

[Cruelbreed]

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

-Herbert Hoover

[Cruelbreed]

"Let us not mourn for the men who have died fighting, but rather let us be glad that such heroes have lived.�

George S. Patton

[Cruelbreed]

“The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.� Louis Simpson

[Cruelbreed]

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.� Ernest Hemmingway

[Cruelbreed]

“The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service.� Albert Einstein

[Cruelbreed]

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“I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.� Major General Smedley Butler, USMC

[Cruelbreed]

“I hate it when they say, ‘He gave his life for his country.' Nobody gives their life for anything. We steal the lives of these kids. We take it away from them. They don't die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.� Admiral Gene LaRocque.

[Cruelbreed]

“The era of true peace on earth will not come as long as a tremendous percentage of your taxes goes to educate men in the trades of slaughter.� Reginald Wright Kauffman

“They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.� Eugene Debs

[Cruelbreed]

“Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.� Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th US President, 1838

[nastyleg]

“Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.� Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th US President, 1838

How true these words ring true today more than ever.

[nastyleg]

A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit.
- the Army's magazine of preventive maintenance.

[nastyleg]

Everyone wants peace - and they will fight the most terrible war to get it.
- Miles Kington, on BBC Radio, 4th February 1995

[nastyleg]

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duty from the front line.
- Charles Montague, 1867-1928

[nastyleg]

What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.
- Lord Melbourne

[Mel]

How true these words ring true today more than ever.

You are soooo right Nastyleg.

[Mel]

"However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbor, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account. If we have to fight it must be on larger issues than that..."
- Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (1938)
about the conflict between Germany and Czechoslavkia)

[nastyleg]

You are soooo right Nastyleg.
It is just so sad to see our government go down the road we are headed and to be cheered on b the raving lunitics who want to see this great country go to pot.

[Mel]

"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. He who conquers others has physical strength. He who conquers himself is strong."
- Tao-te Ching

[Mel]

"Without supplies neither a general nor a soldier is good for anything"
- Clearchus, 401 BC. :Spartan officer, celebrated as the leader of the Ten Thousand.

[Mel]

"I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war."
- Georges Clemenceau

[nastyleg]

Those who talk about peace send those who lives are laid down to preserve it.
Me

[Mel]

Those who talk about peace send those who lives are laid down to preserve it.
MeThat's a good one.

[nastyleg]

That's a good one.

Thankyou Mel. I surprise myself sometimes ;)

[Cruelbreed]

"Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians (at Thermopylae), yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes. It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persian archers were so numerous that, when they fired their volleys, the mass of arrows blocked out the sun. Dienkes, however, quite undaunted by this prospect, remarked with a laugh,

"Good. Then we'll have our battle in the shade."

"Come and get them."
Spartan King Leonidas' reply to the Persian Leader Xeres demand that the Spartans lay down their arms (at Thermopylae)

"Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.
monument at Thermopylae pass

[Cruelbreed]

"When you reach into a pile of goo that used to be your best friend's face.....you'll know what to do"

"My men can eat their belts, but my tanks gotta have gas!"

George S. Patton

[Cruelbreed]

'To be defeated is pardonable; to be surprised-never!'
-Napoleon

[Cruelbreed]

"Don't draw fire; it irritates the people around you." - Your Buddies

[Cruelbreed]

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
- General George Patton

[Cruelbreed]

"March at the head of the ideas of your century, and these ideas follow you and support you. March behind them and they drag you after them. March against them and they overthrow you."
-Napolean

[nastyleg]

There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
George Armstrong Custer

[nastyleg]

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.
Henry Knox

[nastyleg]

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.
Chester W. Nimitz

[nastyleg]

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.
Erwin Rommel

[nastyleg]

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.
William Halsey

[Mel]

"don't draw fire; it irritates the people around you." - your buddieslol

[Mel]

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
- Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924

[Mel]

"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
- Calvin Coolidge, (1872-1933)

[Mel]

"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."
- Brigadier-General Norman Cota: Omaha Beach, 6 june 1944.

[Mel]

"We are outnumbered, there is only one thing to do. We must attack!"
- Admiral Andrew Cunningham, 11 November 1940.
Before attacking the Italian fleet at Taranto

[Cruelbreed]

"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."
- Brigadier-General Norman Cota: Omaha Beach, 6 june 1944.

lol WOW. Keep up the good quotes guys.

[nastyleg]

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
Barry Goldwater

[nastyleg]

I have not yet begun to fight!
John Paul Johns

[nastyleg]

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
Euripides

[nastyleg]

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
Gen. Westmoreland

[nastyleg]

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain

[nastyleg]

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
Oliver Cromwell

[nastyleg]

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will
Oliver Cromwell

[nastyleg]

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
Norman Shwarzkopf

[nastyleg]

I get no respect, no respect at all...
Rodney Dangerfield

[nastyleg]

I get no respect, no respect at all...
Rodney Dangerfield

Not really military but still helluva guy

[Cruelbreed]

I have not yet begun to fight!
John Paul Johns

Imagine you're the enemy and this is the message you get while fighting an overwhelming force. "I have not yet to begun to fight" --... AWW FUCK I GIVE UP.

[nastyleg]

imagine you're the enemy and this is the message you get while fighting an overwhelming force. "i have not yet to begun to fight" --... Aww fuck i give up.
fuck it give up

[Mel]

I get no respect, no respect at all...
Rodney DangerfieldI thought you were trying to sneek one past us.LOL

[Mel]

"We must conquer war or war will conquer us"
- Ely Culbertson

[Mel]

"You'll never get a Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!"
- Capt. Henry P. Crowe, USMC. Guadalcanal, 13 January 1943

[Mel]

"Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats."
- Josephus Daniels

[nastyleg]

I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to "Anarchy" or "Despotism."
George Washington

[Mel]

"I don't know why I got a medal, all I wanted was to get home alive."
Shalom David
Israeli paratrooper awarded after the battle of "Ammunition Hill",
one of the bloodiest fights in the 1967 war.

[Mel]

"I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny"
- Charles DeGaulle on entering Paris in 1944

[Mel]

"The graveyards are full of indispensable men"
- Charles deGaulle

[Cruelbreed]

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
- G K Chesterton

[Cruelbreed]

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

[Cruelbreed]

• Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
- Dwight D Eisenhower

[Cruelbreed]

Dwight Eisenhower:
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it

[Cruelbreed]

Colin Powell:
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

[Cruelbreed]

Norman Schwarzkopf:
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

[sparkie]

The eagle shits on friday,,,,,,,,,,,,

[Mel]

The eagle shits on friday,,,,,,,,,,,,
LOL....For some of us it's just a wet fart.

[Cruelbreed]

The eagle shits on friday,,,,,,,,,,,,

lol I freaking cried when I read that. Thought I was going to read something hardcore.

[nastyleg]

We the overworked, underpaid have done so much with so little for so long that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
Unknown to me

[nastyleg]

It takes politicians to start wars. Generals to figure out how to fight them and soldiers to finish them.

Me

[nastyleg]

noone wants peace more than the soldier who has to fight for it.

[nastyleg]

I fight to keep idiots like Mayor Bloomberg alive so he can use the first amendment to take away others second.

[Mel]

"I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny"
- Charles DeGaulle on entering Paris in 1944

[Mel]

"Economics is war pursued by other means"
- Raymond F. DeVoe

[Mel]

"Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!"
- Ngo Dinh Diem (on becoming President of Vietnam)

[Mel]

The best place to find a helping hand....Is at the end of your arm.

Mel

[nastyleg]

Hey cambell soup kids....I want you to take the hard right over the easy wrong, This is all I ask of you guys.
SFC Sullivan(my old PSG)

[chriss]

The Russians have 2 miracles: Antonov and Kalashnikov
-Lithuanian guy at small airfield.

[Cruelbreed]

Something one of my Marine friends heard in the military

"They might not understand my language, but they'll sure as hell understand the language of hot lead"

[scoutsout80]

"Before we are through with them, the Japanese language will only be spoken in hell."
Admiral Bull Halsey upon returning to Pearl Harbor on Dec 8 1941

"Damn it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!"
Captain Henry P. Jim Crowe (USMC) at Guadalcanal

"We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem."
Lieutenant General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller


The following were all GEN George Patton:

"Fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity."

"Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy."

"I always believe in being prepared, even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails."

"I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight."

"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."

"If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself."

"In case of doubt, attack."

"It's the unconquerable soul of man, not the nature of the weapon he uses, that insures victory."

"Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. "

[scoutsout80]

And my favorite Patton quote:

"Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets."

[Mel]

"The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools."
- Benjamin Disraeli

[Mel]

“I asked for a few Americans. They brought with them the courage of a whole army.�
- General Abdul Rashid Dostum
on the Green Berets in Nov. 2001

[Mel]

The issue is not war and peace, rather, how best to preserve our freedom.
- General Russell E. Dougherty

[nastyleg]

glad to see others getting involved..I was running out. :b

[scoutsout80]

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
Winston Churchill on the RAF in the Battle of Britain

[scoutsout80]

"A rocket will never be able to leave the earth's atmosphere." --The New York Times, 1936

Fucked then like they are fucked up now.

[scoutsout80]

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
--Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.

Silly Frenchman

[scoutsout80]

"Upon the fields of friendly strife. Are sown the seeds, that, upon other fields, on other days, will bear the fruits of victory."

Douglas MacArthur about West Point athletics and is now carved on the gymnasium there.

[scoutsout80]

"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap." -- Napoleon Bonaparte

[scoutsout80]

1. "Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."
(Paul Rodriguez)

2. "A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit."
(Army's magazine of preventive maintenance ).

3. "Aim towards the Enemy."
(Instruction printed on US M79 Rocket Launcher)

4. When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.
(U.S. Marine Corps)

5. Cluster bombing from B-52s is very, very accurate. The bombs always hit the ground.
(U.S. Air Force)

6. If the enemy is in range, so are you.
(Infantry Journal)

7. It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.
(US Air Force Manual)

8. Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
(Gen. MacArthur)

9. Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo.
(Infantry Journal)

10. You, you, and you . . . Panic. The rest of you, come with me.
(Marine Gunnery Sergeant)

11. Tracers work both ways.
(US Army Ordnance)

12. Five second fuses only last three seconds.
(Infantry Journal)

13. Don't ever be the first, don't ever be the last, and don't ever volunteer to do anything.
(US Navy Seaman)

14. Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
(David Hackworth)

15. If your attack is going too well, you have walked into an ambush.
(Infantry Journal)

16. No combat ready unit has ever passed inspection.
(Joe Gay)

17. Any ship can be a minesweeper... once.
(Admiral Hornblower)

18. Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do.
(Unknown Marine Recruit)

19. Don't draw fire; it irritates the people around you.
(Your Buddies)

20. Mines are equal opportunity weapons.
(Army Platoon Sergeant)

21. If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.
(David Hackworth)

22. Your job is to kill the other person before they kill you so that your national leaders can negotiate a peace that will last as long as it takes the ink to dry.
(Drill Instructor)

23. In the Navy, the Chief is always right.
(Written on the door into the Chiefs quarters)

[Cruelbreed]

jeez now scout is killing it.

[Cruelbreed]

Got one that I saw in a gaming video scott posted

"Only the dead have seen the end of war"
Plato

[scoutsout80]

"War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the
sooner it will be over."
-William Tecumseh Sherman

[scoutsout80]

"Veni, vidi, vici."
(I came, I saw, I conquered)
- Julius Caesar, Roman emperor

[scoutsout80]

"Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places."

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf otherwise known as Baghdad Bob

[scoutsout80]

"There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them."

Baghdad Bob

[scoutsout80]

We are winning. There are no tanks in Baghdad.

Baghdad Bob

[Mel]

glad to see others getting involved..I was running out. :b

It's always good to see others have fun too. Me too Nastyleg.

[Mel]

"Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the changes in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after they occur"
- General Giulio Douhet

[Mel]

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."
- Abba Eban

[Mel]

"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."
- Thomas Edison

[Headshot.]

"If your ashamed of these colours,then i suggest you find another flag".

[Mel]

"There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it."
- Havelock Ellis

[Mel]

"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire."
- Epictetus, Roman philosopher (50–138 AD)

[Mel]

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
- Epicurus, Greek philosopher, (341–270 B.C.)

[scoutsout80]

We butchered the force present at the airport. We have retaken the airport! There are no Americans there!"
Baghdad Bob

[Cruelbreed]

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
- Epicurus, Greek philosopher, (341–270 B.C.)

Heh i'm always thinking of this, must be weird to not exist :P

[Mel]

Don't worry Cruelbreed, If you don't exist you'll never know it.

[Mel]

"Dulce bellum inexpertis"
(war is delightful for those who don't know it)
- Desiderius Erasmus, title of his book from 1515
Dutch humanist, ca. 1466–1536

[Mel]

"The God of War hates those who hesitate."
- Euripides, 480-406 b.c.
Greek tragic dramatist

[Mel]

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army"
- Edward Everett

[nastyleg]

We butchered the force present at the airport. We have retaken the airport! There are no Americans there!"
Baghdad Bob

How true these words were at the time....HAHAHAHHAHAHA

[Mel]

Baghdad Bob....That guy was a HOOT!

[scoutsout80]

As Televised Reports of U.S. Forces Approaching the Outskirts of Western Baghdad Are Shown:
"They are not any place. They are on the move everywhere. They are a snake moving in the desert. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion."

Baghdad Bob

[nastyleg]

'We have destroyed 2 tanks, fighter planes, 2 helicopters and their shovels - We have driven them back."

Baghdad Bob

[nastyleg]

"I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly."
Baghdad bob

[nastyleg]

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

[nastyleg]

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
Adolph Hitler

[nastyleg]

We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.
Ted Kennedy

[nastyleg]

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.
Ted Kennedy

[nastyleg]

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
Ted Kennedy

[nastyleg]

Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.
Joe Biden

[nastyleg]

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.
Ron Paul

[Cruelbreed]

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
Adolph Hitler

Jeez, now that's a tough quote to swallow after all this time. Shows what he thought about his followers.

[nastyleg]

Jeez, now that's a tough quote to swallow after all this time. Shows what he thought about his followers.

Took a little digging but I thought it was appropriate.

[Mel]

"Demoralize the enemy, then annihilate them"
- Lieutenant-General Johann von Ewald, 1790

[Mel]

“There is nothing impossible! Give your orders, support them with firmness, and you will see every obstacle vanish!�
- Lieutenant-General Johann von Ewald
“Treatise on the duties of light troops� (1790)

[Mel]

"Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead."
- David Farragut: Battle of Mobil Bay, Aug. 5, 1864

[nastyleg]

Congress can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together It creates between them that communion of interests and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyanny... if this spirit shall ever be so far debased as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate anything but liberty.

James Madison

[nastyleg]

The common and continual mischiefsofthespirit of partyare sufficient to make it the interestandduty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another; foments occasionally riot and insurrection...A fire not to be quenched, it demands uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.

George Washington...farewell speech

[nastyleg]

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degredation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Wereis the difference between having our arms in possession and under direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?

Patrick Henry

[nastyleg]

John Adams

The moment the idea is admittedinto society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyrannycommence.


Karl Marx
The theory ofthe Communists may be summed up in the single sentence:Abolition of private property.

[Mel]

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degredation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Wereis the difference between having our arms in possession and under direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?

Patrick Henry
I like that one.

[Cruelbreed]

"Do not look for the reward, look for the deed"

Capt. Freddie Odomes

[Mel]

"Do not look for the reward, look for the deed"

Capt. Freddie Odomes

A lot of our young folks need to learn that one. Good one.

[Mel]

"The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility"
- British Sea Lord John Fisher

[Mel]

"Any fool can obey orders."
- Sir John "Jackie" Fisher,
architect of the World War I British Navy

[Mel]

"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition."
- H. M. Forgy

[nastyleg]

"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition."
- H. M. Forgy

Amen

[Mel]

"In tactics, action is the governing rule of war"
- Marshal of France Ferdinand Foch

[Mel]

"The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a MARINE CORPS for the next 500
years."
- James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy during WWII

[Mel]

"There never was a good war, or a bad peace."
- Benjamin Franklin

[Mel]

Sorry guys.....Just couldn't let it go.

[Cruelbreed]

"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition."
- H. M. Forgy

I like this one lol

[Mel]

"The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."
- Sigmund Freud

[sparkie]

Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem.

Ronald Regan

[Mel]

That was Ronald Regan?....Hell I didn't know that.

[Mel]

"There is no type of human endeavor where it is so important that the leader understands all phases of his job as that of the profession of arms."
- Major General James Fry

[Mel]

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
- Thomas Fuller, 1608-1681

[nastyleg]

damn mr fuller had a sharp tongue

[s.sack]

Old Blood and Guts
George S. Patton


Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.

I would rather have a German division in front of me, than a French one behind me

The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble. They are the mixture of all the bad races on earth, and they get worse from west to east, because the eastern ones have had more crosses.

The SS... a damn good-looking gang of disciplined sonofabitches

[Mel]

oh yeah...New blood posting. And some good ones too.

[Mel]

"It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death."
- Epictetus

[Mel]

"Dulce bellum inexpertis"
(war is delightful for those who don't know it)
- Desiderius Erasmus, title of his book from 1515
Dutch humanist, ca. 1466–1536

[Cruelbreed]

Old Blood and Guts
George S. Patton


Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.

I would rather have a German division in front of me, than a French one behind me

The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble. They are the mixture of all the bad races on earth, and they get worse from west to east, because the eastern ones have had more crosses.

The SS... a damn good-looking gang of disciplined sonofabitches

Goods ones and welcome to the forums.

[s.sack]

"Wüstenfuchs" Erwin Rommel

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

"Panzeradmiral" Heinz Guderian

No plan of battle ever survives contact with the enemy

[Mel]

"Wüstenfuchs" Erwin Rommel

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

"Panzeradmiral" Heinz Guderian

No plan of battle ever survives contact with the enemy

He's rockin...

[Mel]

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army"
- Edward Everett

[Mel]

"The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility"
- British Sea Lord John Fisher

[Cruelbreed]

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army"
- Edward Everett

Hrm, I guess if the entire world was "educated." But I just feel like this is loose :P

[nastyleg]

lets hug it out bitch.

[Bisley_Bob]

"Don't worry, skin's waterproof."
-Overused British Army phrase for times when you're getting wet.

[ghost]

"Don't worry, skin's waterproof."
-Overused British Army phrase for times when you're getting wet.

Haha. I like that one.

[Mel]

"The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a MARINE CORPS for the next 500
years."
- James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy during WWII

[Mel]

"The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."
- Sigmund Freud

[Mel]

"There is no type of human endeavor where it is so important that the leader understands all phases of his job as that of the profession of arms."
- Major General James Fry

[pbr111]

These are the times that try men's souls.
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will,
in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country;
but he that stands it now,
deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
--Thomas Paine