These are some cool historic military quotes that I have recorded and othes have sent me. If you should find an error in one of them or have a quote to add, please contact me and I will fix/add it.
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"We have a very daring and skillful opponet against us. And may I
say across the havoc of war, a great general."
-Winston Churchill
(commenting on Rommel)
"Long may the calls of freedom live, God save the king."
-Winston Churchill
"Hitler knows he will have to break us in the island, or he will lose
the war..... .....If Britain and her Commonwealth lasts for a thousand
years, men will still say: this was their finest hour."
-Winston Churchill
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed, by so many,
to so few."
-Winston Churchill
(commenting on the RAF pilots)
"I deem it highly important that we shake hands with the Russians as far
to the east as possible."
-Winston Churchill
"Are there no other alternatives than to send our armies to chew barb
wire in Flanders?"
-Winston Churchill
(to the Prime Minister,WWI)
"I bring peace in our time."
-Neville Chamberline
(commenting on his diplomatic
efforts with Hitler. Less
than a year later, Hitler
started WWII.)
"Give me 12 years, and you won't recognize Germany anymore."
-Hitler, 1933
"If the Germans cannot win this war, then
they can rot."
-Hitler
(To Rommel, 1943)
"Paris must not fall into the enemy's hands, but if it does, he
must find there nothing but a field of ruins."
-Hitler's orders on Paris,1944.
"IS PARIS BURNING?"
-Hitler, 1944
(After learning Paris had fallen.)
"Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England."
-Napolean
"The moral is to the physical as three is to one."
-Napolean
"Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won"
-Wellington, 1815
"My son, seek thee out a kingdom equal to thyself; Macedonia has not room
for thee."
-Philip of Macedonia
(to Alexander)
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
-Abraham Lincoln
(paraphrasing Jesus)
"I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty
or give me death!"
-Patrick Henry
"My life was too short to acheive the conquest of the whole world."
-Genghis Khan
(dying words to his son)
"Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you."
-Nikita Khrushcev
"I'd fight them if they were a million."
-A.S. Johnston
"I had rather die than be whipped."
-J.E.B. Stuart
"It is well that war is so terrible- otherwise, we would grow too
fond of it."
-Robert E. Lee, 1862
(upon seeing carnage of Fredricksburg.)
"Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish
to do less."
-Robert E. Lee
"War means fighting... and fighting means killing."
-Nathan B. Forrest
"Mystify, mislead, suprise!"
-Stonewall Jackson
"Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees."
-Stonewall Jackson
(last words)
"War is hell."
-William T. Sherman
"My only regret is that I have but one life to give for my country."
-Nathan Hale
"The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
"One life is a tragedy, but a million is just a statistic."
-Joseph Stalin
"So long as one isn't carrying ones head under one's arm, things aren't too bad."
-Erwin Rommel
"They are certainly no good at war"
-Erwin Rommel
(refering to the Italians)
"All I want to hear from you is, YES or NO."
-Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita,1942
(Demanding surrender of Singapore)
"We may be going a bridge too far."
-Gen. Browning, 1944
(Warning to Monty.)
"NUTS!"
-Brig.Gen. McAuliffe, 1944
(Refusing surrender at Bastogne.)
"Peace is going to be hell on me."
-George S. Patton
"God damn how I hate the twentieth century."
-George S. Patton
"Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavour shrink to total insignificance."
-George S. Patton
(speaking to an adgitant,
while watching his troops
march toward Messina.)
"I shall return."
-Gen. MacArthur
"History... a patternless succession of one damn thing after another, some of which may lead to the catastrophe of war."
-Lord Stratford de Redcliffe
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