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Post by skorzeny on Oct 4, 2006 6:47:55 GMT -5
I thought this might be an interesting topic to start up. Basically any catchy or 'cool' quote somebody made during the war. Please give at least some idea of the context as well.
I'll lead off with a fairly chilling (but extremely appropriate one for AE-WWII) speech made by Hitler in March 1945 when addressing the German Ninth Army:
'We still have things that need to be finished, and when they are finished, they will turn the tide.'
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Post by xeoran on Oct 4, 2006 7:30:28 GMT -5
General MacAuliffe's ; "Nuts!"
Winston Churchill; "I never worry about action, only inaction."
Winston Churchill; "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
Josef Stalin; "Artillery is the god of war"
General Patton; "Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his."
General MacArthur; "We Are Not Retreating...We Are Advancing In Another Direction."
Winston Churchill; "I am afraid we killed the wrong pig!"
Winston Churchill; "It Is Not Even The Beginning Of The End. But It Is Perhaps, The End Of The Beginning."
Adolf Eichmann; "One hundred dead are a catastrophe, a million dead are a statistic."
Josef Stalin; "A single death is a tragedy, but a million deaths is statistics"
Unnamed British soldier; "When the German artillery fired, we ducked. When our artillery fired, the Germans ducked. When the American artillery fired, everybody ducked!"
Winston Churchill; "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." [said a half American!]
Winston Churchill; "I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
Winston Churchill; "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, 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."
Winston Churchill; "A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."
Isoroku Yamamoto;"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
President Rooselvelt; "December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy"
Dwight D. Eisenhower; "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."
President Roosevelt in a letter to Winston Churchill; "It is fun to be in the same decade with you."
J. Robert Oppenheimer (after the test of the first atomic bomb); "I have become death, the destroyer of worlds"
Winston Churchill is ridiculously quotable....
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Post by tordenskjold on Oct 4, 2006 9:38:14 GMT -5
"But sir, why not fight them in Germany?"
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Post by xeoran on Oct 4, 2006 11:08:13 GMT -5
"But sir, why not fight them in Germany?" Because we have no bl*ody troops! ;D
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Post by skorzeny on Oct 4, 2006 18:50:08 GMT -5
Erwin Rommel, commenting to one of his friends in the 1920's on the Nazi Party: 'They seem to be a set of scallywags.'
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Post by xeoran on Oct 5, 2006 5:08:57 GMT -5
Erwin Rommel, commenting to one of his friends in the 1920's on the Nazi Party: 'They seem to be a set of scallywags.' Skallywags...I love it!
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Post by unknowntales on Oct 5, 2006 13:06:14 GMT -5
My pal, Martin Bormann:
"Every educated person is a future enemy."
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Post by A neutral shade of black. on Oct 7, 2006 4:34:06 GMT -5
General Patton; "Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his." Get your quotes right, xeo. It's "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." (I've also heard "The purpose of war isn't to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his" - quoted from memory).
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Post by xeoran on Oct 7, 2006 5:16:06 GMT -5
General Patton; "Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his." Get your quotes right, xeo. It's "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." (I've also heard "The purpose of war isn't to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his" - quoted from memory). Garr! Whoops...darn, I even checked the quote on the internet (D*mn you Wikepedia! ). Nice catch anyway.
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Post by baphomael on Nov 1, 2006 12:22:29 GMT -5
Some quoutes from good 'ole Uncle Joe, I'm not sure if they are all WWII quoute, but I like them anyways "Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union." "The Pope? How many divisions has he got?" "When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use." "If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes."
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Post by xeoran on Nov 1, 2006 12:40:58 GMT -5
;D
Love those.
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Post by weridetofight on Nov 1, 2006 21:03:52 GMT -5
"In the Soviet Union, it is more dangerous to retreat than attack." (Heard somewhere, forgot who said it)
And my three favorite Rommel quotes:
"Good men. Terrible officers. But without them, we wouldn't have civilization." (Rommel referring to Italians)
"Gentlemen, you have fought like lions and have been led by Donkeys." (What Rommel said to surrendering Commonwealth soldiers)
"Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, and brains save both."
And one from MacArthur: "On the battlefield, the best kind of luck is the luck you make for yourself."
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Post by baphomael on Nov 6, 2006 14:34:00 GMT -5
""In the Soviet Union, it is more dangerous to retreat than attack." (Heard somewhere, forgot who said it)" What, you forgot who said it? Off to the Gulags with you! That was the inspiring voice of Great Comrade Stalin
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Post by xeoran on Nov 24, 2006 18:53:36 GMT -5
Had to add this quote: "F**k off!". A British Tommy said this to Winston Churchill at the Tehran conference. Churchill was returning late in the dark and the Tommy had been half asleep, spotting Winston and his guard and not realising who they were he shouted the above phrase. Churchill declined to have the man punished.
Less of a quote and more of a weird fact: the only kill in WW2 by a general (or higher) was Maj-General Roy Urquart at Arnhem who shot a German soldier with his Browning.
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Post by tuska on Dec 7, 2006 21:43:52 GMT -5
I just have to love the Quote form Marsalkka Mannerheim in his B-Day, as you might know he didnt like Hitler, and sead that he dont like to have enyting to do whit him, but he did have to invte him to his B-day and he did know that Hitler didnt eat meat or drink alcohol so Mannerheim did personaly make sure that every food had meat and every dink had alcohol and the quote goes someting like this "But you sure you dont want enyting to drink or to eat?" Allways love that, Finland, small but irritating nation..... Edit: ou and allmoust forgot! My all time fafored "Here´s you coctail MR. Molotov!" (In Väinö Linna´s unknow solder book) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_thingytail
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