These quotes all have to do with the military or military history.
Aug 20-26, 2006
Before Alemein
we never had a victory. After Alemein we never had a defeat
Winston Churchill
Sorry for the gap, Aug 13-19, 2006
Imagine a Highland
Napoleon. Imagine a Bonny Prince Charlie with European ambitions who, having
won back Scotland from King George II, sets off at the head of his clans not
just to conquer England- a mere preliminary- but to cross the Channel, to meet
and beat the French army on the River Somme, then journey south into Spain to
besiege and subdue its principal fortresses, return north to challenge the Holy
Roman Emperor, twice confront and defeat him at the head of his own forces,
seize his crown, burn his capital, bury his corpse and finally depart eastward
to cross swords with the Tsar of Russia or the Sultan of Turkey. Imagine all
this done compressed into, say, 1745-56, between the princeling's twenty-second
and thirty-third birthdays. Imagine on his death, at the age of thirty-two, the
crowns of Europe shared between his follewers-Lord Geroge Murray ruling Madrid,
the Duke of Perth in Paris, Lord Elcho in Vienna, John Rov Stewart in Berlin,
Cameron of Lochiel in Warsaw, a gaggle of tartaned chieftains braving for
whisky in the small courts of south Germany and London garrisoned by a crew of
bare-kneed highlanders. Finally, imagine most of the Jacobite empire enduring
inot the nineteenth century, parts of it into the twentieth, and its last
fragments into the twenty-first.
John Keegan- On an Alexander if
he was Scottish.
Jan 2-8, 2006
Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions!
Caesar Augustus
Dec 26, 2005-Jan 1, 2006
Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them,
Cannon in front of them, Volley'ed and thundered.
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Dec 19-25, 2005
The War will be over before Christmas
Many people have said this
Dec 12-18, 2005
When we assumed the soldier, we did not lay aside the citizen.
George Washington
Dec 5-11, 2005
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat
brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Ernest Hemmingway
Nov 28 to Dec 4, 2005
War is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
General Smedley Butler
Nov 21-27, 2005
The moral is to the physical as three to one Napoleon Bonaparte
Nov 14-20, 2005 (One Year for this site)
To those who fall I say: You will not die but step into immortality. Your mothers will not
lament your fate but will be proud to have borne such sons. Your names will be revered
forever and ever by your grateful country, and God will take you unto Himself.
Sir Arthur Currie
Nov 7-13: Nov 11 is Remembrance Day (Canada) Veteran's (US)
In Flander's Fields In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
John McCrae
Oct 31-Nov 6, 2005
When people tell me that Pierre Trudeau put Canada on the map,
I direct them to the fields of Flanders and France, the skies over the English Channel,
and the North Atlantic sea.
G.E. Benton
Oct 24-30, 2005
Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty.
You should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee
Oct 17-23, 2005
By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes
Frederick the Great
Oct 10-16, 2005
War is collective killing for a collective purpose.
John Keegan
Oct 3-9,2005
Christendom has made two efforts to deal with the evil of war-chivalry and pacifism.Neither suceeded.
C.S. Lewis
Sept 26-Oct 2, 2005
I need this man, He fights
Abraham Lincoln (on Grant)
Sept 19-25, 2005
All
right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of
us, they're behind us... they can't get away this time.
Chesy Puller
Sept 12-18, 2005
Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.
Ataturk
Sept 5- 11, 2005
If
you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a
hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every
victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the
enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Sun Tzu
August 22- Sept 4, 2005
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Lewis Stevenson
August 15-21, 2005
I
think war might be God’s way of teaching us
geography
Rodriguez, Paul
The art of using troops is this:
......When ten to the enemy's one, surround him;
......When five times his strength, attack him;
......If double his strength, divide him;
......If equally matched you may engage him;
......If weaker numerically, be capable of withdrawing;
......And if in all respects unequal, be capable of eluding him,
..........for a small force is but booty for one more powerful.
August 8-14, 2005
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell
August 1-7, 2005
Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
Meehan, Francis
July 25-31, 2005
You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.
Einstein, Albert
July 18-24, 2005
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
Winston Churchill
July 11-17, 2005
WAR : We Are
Right
Chief Elder, Pangaea
July 4-10, 2005
Old soldiers never die; they just
fade
away.
MacArthur, General Douglas
June 27-July 3, 2005 ( Thanks for the suggestion Allen Jr)
The enemy doesn't expect us, reckons us 100 versts away, and if a
long way off to begin with, 200, 300 or more- suddenly we're on him,
like snow on the head; his head spins. Attack with what comes up, with
what God sends; the cavalry to begin, smash, strike, cut off, don't let
slip, hurra!
Alexander V. Suvorov
June 20-26, 2005
War would end if the dead could
return.
Stanley Baldwin
June 13-19, 2005
You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same
time.
Einstein, Albert
June 6-12, 2005 (D-Day)
People of Western Europe: A landing was made this morning on the
coast of France by troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force. This
landing is part of the concerted United Nations' plan for the
liberation of Europe, made in conjunction with our great Russian allies
... I call upon all who love freedom to stand with us. Keep your faith
staunch. Our arms are resolute. Together we shall achieve
victory.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
May 30-June 5, 2005
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Lewis Stevenson
May 23-29, 2005
When we assumed the soldier, we did not lay aside the citizen.
George Washington
May 16-22, 2005
We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle
May 9-15, 2005
Take calculated
risks. George S. Patton, Jr
May 2-8, 2005
We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets
and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not
for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were
subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and
guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's
good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the
liberation and rescue of the Old."
Prime Minister Winston Churchill (after the fall of France)
April 25- May 1, 2005
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who
has seen its brutality, its futility, its
stupidity
Eisenhower, Dwight David
April 18-24, 2005
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the
arsenals of the worked are so formidable as the will and moral and
courage of free men and women. It is a weapon adversaries in today's
world do not have.
Ronald Reagan
April 11-17, 2005
There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli
April 4-10, 2005
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become a oyster.
Theodore Roosevelt
March 28-April 3, 2005
There's only one truth about war: people die. Sheridan, Phillip
March 21-27, 2005
This means war! I thought it meant
touchdown?
Animaniacs
March 14-20,2005
We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general. Churchill about Rommel
March 7-13, 2005
I am afeard there are few die well that die in
battle.
William Shakespeare
Feb 28-Mar.6, 2005
The British and Americans do not want
war with races or governments as such. Tyranny, external or internal,
is our
foe
Churchill, Sir Winston
Feb 21-27, 2005
Much must be risked in
war.
Denethor ( JRR Tolkien)
Feb 14-Feb 20, 2005
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. Fosdick, Henry
Feb 7- Feb 13, 2005
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the
other bastard die for
his
George S Patton Jr.
Jan31- Feb 6, 2005
The officers of a panzer division must learn to think and act
independently within the framework of the general plan and not wait
until they receive orders.
Erwin Rommel
Jan 24-30, 2005
Future years will never know the hell and black infernal background
of this war. It is best they should not the real war will never get in
the books Walt Whitman
Jan. 17-23, 2005
The first and most important rule to
observe...is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. The
second rule is to concentrate our power as much as possible against
that section where the chief blows are to be delivered and to incur
disadvantages elsewhere, so that our chances of success may increase at
the decisive point. The third rule is never to waste time. Unless
important advantages are to be gained from hesitation, it is necessary
to set to work at once. By this speed a hundred enemy measures are
nipped in the bud, and public opinion is won most rapidly. Finally, the
fourth rule is to follow up our successes with the utmost energy. Only
pursuit of the beaten enemy gives the fruits of victory.
Karl von Clausewitz
Jan. 10-16, 2005
I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me.
Duke of Wellington
Jan. 3- 9, 2005
War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and
reason.
Karl von Clausewitz
Dec 27-Jan 2, 2005
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without
fighting.
Sun Tzu
Dec.20-26, 2004
Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
Will Rogers
Dec.13-19, 2004
Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking.
Ferdinand Foch at the Battle of the Marne
Dec.6-12, 2004
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of
it Lee,
Robert Edward
Nov. 29-Dec. 5, 2004
Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nov. 22-28, 2004
The art of war is simple enough. Find
out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him
as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving
on.
Grant, Ulysses S
Nov. 15-21, 2004
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but
World War IV will be fought with sticks and
stones.
Einstein, Albert |
