Military Quotes

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  1. canuck

    canuck Closed Account

    A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
    George S. Patton
     
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  2. 26delta

    26delta Senior Member

    “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
    — Napoleon Bonaparte
     
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  3. wowtank

    wowtank Very Senior Member

    " You can tell General Stilwell he can stuck his Americans up his arse."

    Major General Orde Wingate.


    Taken from Call to Arms by Julian Thompson.
     
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  4. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

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  5. A-58

    A-58 Not so senior Member

    "On the Plains of Hesitation, lies the blackened bones of countless millions who,
    at the dawn of victory sat down to rest, and resting died"....

    (Adlai Stevenson to Harry Truman on discussing the pros and cons of dropping the big one, or so I'm told)
     
  6. TTH

    TTH Senior Member

    The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, as often as you can, and keep moving on.

    ---Ulysses S. Grant
     
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  7. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    "I'll officer you."

    Said by Nathan B. Forrest, with saber drawn, to a young lieutenant who would not help in dousing flames on supply wagons set on fire by Union troops on their retreat to Memphis.

    As quoted in May I Quote You, General Forrest? by Randall Bedwell.
     
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  8. TEUFELHUNDED

    TEUFELHUNDED New Member

    "We are surrounded, that simplifies the problem of getting at these people and killing them."
    Chesty Puller.
     
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  9. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    "Dadge! You're a fuckin wanker ! What are you ?"

    "A fucking wanker Sergeant!"

    Sgt VL Brown of The Cheshires to me on kit inspection in 1986.

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  10. Grasmere

    Grasmere Well-Known Member

    "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    “The military don’t start wars. Politicians start wars.”
    William C. Westmoreland

    "Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way. "
    George S. Patton Jr.

    "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
    G. K. Chesterton
     
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  11. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

    "We have done four sea-borne operations and the Unit has done smashingly well. General Dempsey, the Corps Commander, paid us what, I imagine, were the highest compliments paid to any unit. Among other things he said we were the best crowd he had ever had under his command. I think he is right, too; the lads have done well!".
    Paddy Mayne (letter to Malcom Pleydell, October 1943)

    Kind regards, always,

    Jim.
     
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  12. smdarby

    smdarby Well-Known Member

    "Round 'em up, put 'em in a field and bomb the bastards"

     
  13. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    I can't say that I disagree with the cogent estimation of young Private Dadge by the knowledgeable Sergeant Brown.:D
     
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  14. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

  15. Son of LAC

    Son of LAC Active Member

    "...any Japanese officer wishing to commit suicide would be given every facility."

    General William Slim, Defeat Into Victory
     
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  16. A-58

    A-58 Not so senior Member

    “Uh oh”

    LTC George Armstrong Custer, US 7th Cavalry Regiment, The Battle of Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876.
     

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