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Rick Raisley
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| Posted: 05-Jun-2004 21:18 Post subject: RE: Quoteable Quotes. What's yours? |
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Hey, lets not forget the old faithful...
"Oops."
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| Posted: 06-Jun-2004 06:57 Post subject: RE: Quoteable Quotes. What's yours? |
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A selection of loosely war related quotes
US Submarine force definition of Doctrine
"Doctrine: Guidance to be followed in the absence of all other intelligence, including human."
"May God bless your bayonets that they may penetrate deep into the entrails of your enemies. May the Almighty in His great righteousness direct your artillery fire upon the heads of the enemy staffs. Merciful God, grant that all our enemies may be stifled amid their own blood, from the wounds which we inflict upon them."- Geza Szatmur Budafal, Archbishop of Budapest,
"The Good Soldier Schweik" by Jaroslav Hacek
"Death flees the bayonet of the brave"
- Suvorov
"Of course Australia was marked for
glory, for its people had been chosen
by the finest judges in England."
-- Anonymous
- Blessed are the Peacemakers...
for they are the finest revolvers Colt ever manufactured!
Cry "Havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war,
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial."
-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
History, n. An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
-From the Enlarged Devil's Dictionary , Ambrose Bierce
"Artillery does all the killing nowadays. Men can do nothing."
Frederick the Great , 1762
You're a brave man. Go and break through the lines. And remember, while you're out there risking you're life and limb through shot and shell, we'll be in be in here thinking what a sucker you are. - Groucho Marx
"The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather to your bosom his wives and his daughters."
Genghis Khan 1226
You're a brave man. Go and break through the lines. And remember, while you're out there risking you're life and limb through shot and shell, we'll be in be in here thinking what a sucker you are. - Groucho Marx
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless
made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-- John Stuart Mill
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
-- Barbara Tuchman
"The power of the empire resides in the lighted matches of my Arquebusiers."
- Charles V
We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name
-William Shakespeare
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot"
-General Narvaez, on his deathbed confession
"Dogs, do you wish to live forever?
-Frederick the Great to his infantry, Kolin 1757
"There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war"
-Miguel de Cervantes
"May God give me a hundred years of war, and not a day of battle"
- Alejandro Farnesio, Duke of Parma
"Go, tell the Spartans, thou who passeth by: Carrying out their orders here we lie"
-Simonides
"If my soldiers began to think, not one would remain in the ranks"
-Frederick the Great
It is well that war is so terrible, else we should grow too fond of it
-General Robert E. Lee
[ This Message was edited by: Vampire on 2004-06-06 06:58 ]
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| Posted: 06-Jun-2004 11:59 Post subject: RE: Quoteable Quotes. What's yours? |
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Cry "Havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war,
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial."
-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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Hmm, just to pick on Vampire cause Vamp been pickin on me over ICQ lately 
The actual quote is "Cry Havoc!, and let slip the dogs of war...."
 besides this one was already on Rick Raisley's quoute page hehe.
Anyways seriously Vamp, you gotten your problems with CBT resolved now that I told ya what the real problem is?
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| Posted: 06-Jun-2004 15:05 Post subject: RE: Quoteable Quotes. What's yours? |
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Written on one of the crosses at a marines' grave, after the invasion of Peleleu (?) in the WW II Pacific Theater:
"And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he can tell, 'Another marine reporting, Sir. Ive served my time in Hell' "
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| Posted: 07-Jun-2004 06:12 Post subject: RE: Quoteable Quotes. What's yours? |
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Been There, Done that... 
"History is written by the victorious"
"Your duty is not to die for your country but, to make that other poor bastard die for his"
[parapharse... George S. Patton]
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| Posted: 07-Jun-2004 09:19 Post subject: RE: Quoteable Quotes. What's yours? |
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"Human life is cheap. Battlemechs are expensive."
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| Posted: 07-Jun-2004 11:27 Post subject: RE: Quoteable Quotes. What's yours? |
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"History is written by the survivors."
"War doesnt prove whos right, only whos left."
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| Posted: 07-Jun-2004 12:08 Post subject: RE: Quoteable Quotes. What's yours? |
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Stop spamming my board Rick!! Promoting your own site. Shame on you!
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Oafman
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| Posted: 07-Jun-2004 14:45 Post subject: RE: Quoteable Quotes. What's yours? |
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One of my favs has to be from an old computer game. (cannot remember the name though)
"no, I said a bud light!!"
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| Posted: 07-Jun-2004 16:11 Post subject: RE: Quoteable Quotes. What's yours? |
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“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster… when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you…”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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| Posted: 07-Jun-2004 16:32 Post subject: RE: Quoteable Quotes. What's yours? |
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reminds me of another of my favorite Nietzsche quotes
"Do you go with women? Don't forget the whip!
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| Posted: 08-Jun-2004 07:13 Post subject: RE: Quoteable Quotes. What's yours? |
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Marquis deSade on raising children.
"Do not beat your children, beat each other."
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| Posted: 08-Jun-2004 09:13 Post subject: Words to live by |
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"Infantry are a lot of fun . . . to step on."
Actually, I really like Dick Marckino's "10 Commandments of the Rogue Warrior:"
- I am the War Lord and the God of Combat and I will always lead from the front, not the rear.
- I will treat you all alike - just like s***.
- Thou shalt do nothing I will not do first, and thus will you be created Warriors in my deadly image.
- I shall punish thy bodies because the more thou sweatest in training, the less thou bleedest in combat.
- Indeed, if thou hurteth in thy efforts and thou suffer painful dings, then thou art doing it right.
- Thou hast not to like it, thou hast just to do it.
- Thou shalt Keep It Simple, Stupid.
- Thou shalt never assume.
- Verily, thou art not paid for thy methods, but for thy results, which meaneth: Thou shalt kill thine enemy by any means available before he killeth you.
- Thou shalt, in the Warrior's Mind and Soul, always remember My ultimate and final commandment: THERE ARE NO RULES; THOU SHALT WIN AT ALL COSTS!!
Rules to live by.
Storm
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