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The newsgroup has been posting "favorite military quotes" and some of these are priceless lol

AUTHOR: Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
QUOTATION: Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.


This one came dangerously close to being my new sig lololol

"They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards." -- General Creighton
W. Abrams, Jr., Battle of the Bulge, December 1944.


"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- Gen
George S. Patton


If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed;
if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you
may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you
and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate.
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better
to perish than to live as slaves." -- Winston Churchill


"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us". George Orwell

Fighting For Justice With Brains Of Steel !
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The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.

"Men, take no prisoners"

Col. George Armstrong Custer, Battle of Little Big Horn.

"It should come as a surprise only to the fools among the men of our generation that we liked war."

Major V. 'Popski' Poniakov, British LRG, WWII

"War is Cruelty and you cannot refine it, the crueler it is the sooner it is over." W.T. Sherman

"It is good that war is so terrible, lest we grow to fond of it." R.E. Lee

"Watch this!!!" most Warrant Officers and Senior NCO's.... take note this is a bad thing.

You look as lost as a bastard child on Fathers day.

Edited by - Stinger on Apr 08 2004 2:18 PM

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\"One of you is gonna fall and die, and I'm not cleaning it up\"

<i>"They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards." -- General Creighton
W. Abrams, Jr., Battle of the Bulge, December 1944.</i>

Beautiful.
His name is worthy to be connotated with one of the best fighting vehicles in the world.


"I love the smell of napalm in morning; smells like... victory." -
Lt. William "Bill" Kilgore in <i>Apocalypse Now</i>



Edited by - tritonal on Apr 08 2004 4:38 PM

"Nuts"

General A.C. McAullife, Acting CO of 101st Airborne Div, Bastogne upon reading the enemy's demand for surrender.

"It should come as a surprise only to the fools among the men of our generation that we liked war."

Major V. 'Popski' Poniakov, British LRG, WWII

"A good war makes sacred any cause" - Nietzsche

"War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing: It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface" - Gandhi

"War is at best barbarism... Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell." - Genereal William Tecumseh

"Retreat, hell! We just got here!" - Captain Lloyd Williams

"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular." - Oscar Wilde

"Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as Soldiers are for finishing it. You take Diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall in a week." - Will Rogers

"Retreat, hell! We just got here!"-Captain Lloyd Williams, 2nd Marine Division, Belleau Wood, France, WWI

"With the exception of slavery, Nazism, communism, and terrorism, war never solved anything."- Tritonal<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

LOL, good one Trit.

“The most difficult thing about planning against the Americans, is that they do not read their own doctrine, and they would feel no particular obligtion to follow it if they did."
-Fleet Admiral Sergei I. Gorshkov

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature who can never be free except made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-John Stuart Mill

"It is the unconquerable nature of man and not the nature of the weapon he uses that ensures victory."
- General George S. Patton

“With two thousand years of examples behind us we have no excuse, when fighting, for not fighting well.”
- T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia)

"You have never really lived, until you have almost died. For those who fight for it, life has a flavor that the protected will never know..."
- Hemmingway

“It is not the big armies that win battles, it is the good ones.”
-Maurice de Saxe marshal-general of France

“There is nothing so pleasing as to be shot at by one’s enemy without result.”
-Sir Winston L. S. Churchill

“Why study an army that has lost two world wars?”
-Michael A. Palmer, U.S. Army

“War is the mother of everything.”
-Heraclitus

“War is nothing but the continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.”
-Karl von Clausowitz

“The most persistent sound which reverbrates through man’s history is the beating of war drums.”
-Arthur Koestler, Janus

“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.”
- Robert E. Lee, Fredericksburg, VA. 1862

“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”
-George Orwell

“In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.”
-Heroditus

"You Americans do not realize what formidable warships you have in these four battleships. We have concluded after careful analysis that these magnificent ships are in fact the most to be feared in your entire naval arsenal. When engaged in combat we could throw everything we have at those ships and all our firepower would bounce off or be of little effect. Then when we are exhausted, we will detect you coming over the horizon and then you will sink us."
-Fleet Admiral Sergei I. Gorshkov, 1985


"It should come as a surprise only to the fools among the men of our generation that we liked war."

Major V. 'Popski' Poniakov, British LRG, WWII

I do not trust a fighting man that does not smoke, drink or curse...

-Admiral William "Bull" Halsey

Should we bury them Josey? Hell with them boy...buzzards got to eat, same as the worms...

-Outlaw Josey Wales




Edited by - chadrewsky on Apr 08 2004 5:35 PM

"Now spit..."

Indian from The Outlaw Josey Wales.

"A Man's got to make a living"

Bounty Hunter from Josey Wales.

"Dying aint no way to make a living boy"

Josey Wales.

LOL....great movie.

"It should come as a surprise only to the fools among the men of our generation that we liked war."

Major V. 'Popski' Poniakov, British LRG, WWII

"The MARINES: No better friend, no worse enemy."

"If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead." ~Gen. George
Patton~


"No poor dumb bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by
making the other poor dumb bastards die for their country." ~Gen. George
Patton~

"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us". George Orwell

Fighting For Justice With Brains Of Steel !
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The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.

"...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!" - Captain John Paul Jones

"I have not yet begun to fight!" - Captain John Paul Jones

"Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious." - President George Washington

"We have met the enemy and they are ours..." - Oliver Hazard Perry

"Damn the torpedoes, Full speed ahead!" - Admiral David Glasgow Farragut

"You may fire when ready, Gridley." - Commodore George Dewey

"A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace." - President Theodore Roosevelt

"A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks." - President Woodrow Wilson

"The battle of Iwo Jima has been won. Among the Americans who served on Iwo, uncommon valor was a common virtue." - Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

"The Navy has both a tradition and a future--and we look with pride and confidence in both directions." - Admiral George Anderson

"Events of October 1962 indicated, as they had all through history, that control of the sea means security. Control of the seas can mean peace. Control of the seas can mean victory. The United States must control the seas if it is to protect your security...." - President John F. Kennedy

"I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.'" - President John F. Kennedy

"We need men and women who by their personal integrity, their sense of moral purpose and their acceptance of the requirement for hard work will exemplify the best in the leadership traditions of the Navy and of our country. This is not `just another program.' Nor is it a project to breed unthinking conformity to a rigid set of values. It is designed to make us aware of our duties and responsibilities as leaders and to act accordingly. Through this program the already great strength of the Navy will be increased even more, and through it we will respond more effectively to the challenge which confronts our country." - Admiral Arleigh A. Burke

"Retreat, hell! We just got here!"-Captain Lloyd Williams, 2nd Marine Division, Belleau Wood, France, WWI

"Good luck boys. Remember..no one get's left behind"

"A couple blocks down. I'll shoot him myself!, a couple blocks down. Tell his skinny ass he's not getting paid until he does it." -General William Garrison.

"Sure, stop here. This is the right place for our foul, nihilistic mood. No place could be better. Let's all riverdance. I can be lord of the motherless dance. I'm a Mick. Bite me"

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"Paper-work will ruin any military force"
- Lieutenant-General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller

"You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em."
- Lieutenant-General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller

When an Army captain asked him for the direction of the line of retreat,
Col Puller called his Tank Commander, gave them the Army position, and ordered:
"If they start to pull back from that line, even one foot, I want you to open fire on them."
Turning to the captain, he replied "Does that answer your question?
We're here to fight." At Koto-ri in Korea
- Chesty Puller at Koto-ri in Korea

"The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the Air Force has accomplished during the war."
- Chesty Puller in a letter to his wife while in Korea

"Don't forget that you're First Marines! Not all the Communists in hell can overrun you!"
- Chesty Puller motivating his men at Chosin Reservoir

"Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any AMERICA because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!"
-Lt. Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC

"Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines". "
Major General Chesty Puller, USMC - while on a Battalion inspection.

"We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem."
- 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!"
- 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.

Nice quotes dudes

"Retreat, hell! We just got here!"-Captain Lloyd Williams, 2nd Marine Division, Belleau Wood, France, WWI

"Don't cheer boys, the poor bastards are dying!"

-Capt. Clark of USS Oregon, when his crew were cheering the destruction of Spanish vessels Santiago, Cuba, 1898






Jesus said: "If you do not have a sword, go and buy one."


Edited by - 2drezq on Apr 09 2004 11:58 AM

Edited by - 2drezq on Apr 09 2004 11:58 AM

You gonna pull them pistols or whistle dixie?

-Outlaw Josey Wales

My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, situation excellent, I am attacking.

--Ferdinand Foch, Second Battle of the Marne, 1918.

Fear and anxiety are for losers...So lets get moving and <i>KICK SOME ASS!</i>