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Stephen Lang doing a rendition of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address at Gettysburg for the 2021 Remembrance Day. It's amazing.

Wow no posts in this thread for over a year. Time for a bumpski. "Duty," "Honor," "Country"—those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when...

"Come on boys! Give them the cold steel! Who will follow me?" - General Lewis Armistead, famous last attributed words during the High Water Mark of the Confederacy in Pickett's Charge at the climax of the Battle of Gettysburg.

"Ultima Ratio Regum/The last argument of Kings." - The words French King Louis XIV (1643-1715) ordered inscribed on every cannon cast for his armies.

"No man holds his flesh and blood in hatred, and I am no exception. I just join my own people and the nation in which I was born. Choose whether to go with me, or return to your homes." - Robert Bruce (a twenty two year old Earl of Carrick who is a French speaking Norman by heritage who owned...

To christen the new forum... “I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food. I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles, and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.” -- Giuseppe Garibaldi

"Despite what Momma told you, violence does solve problems." - Chris Kyle, American Sniper

"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons." - General Douglas MacArthur

"Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England." - Napoleon, July 1815

"He is eccentric and I cannot guess his movements as I could those of Johnston, who was a sensible man and only did sensible things." - General William T. Sherman writing of General John Bell Hood being appointed to replace General Johnston as Commander of the opposing Confederate Army during...

"Men since the beginning of time have sought peace. Various methods through the ages have attempted to devise an international process to prevent or settle disputes between nations. From the very start workable methods were found insofar as individual citizens were concerned, but the mechanics...

"I am in an old abandoned French trench bordering on the road leading out of your P.C. and 350 yards from an old mill. I have only two men out of my company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try and get it here as we are swept by machine-gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I...

"Let's go, boys! We've got the damn Yankees on the run again!" - US (and former Civil War Confederate) General Joseph Wheeler during the Spanish-American War during the Spanish retreat after the Battle of Las Guasimas.

"We’ve been looking for the enemy for some time now. We’ve finally found him. We’re surrounded. That simplifies things." -- Lewis "Chesty" Puller, USMC during the Battle of Chosin.

"I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts turn to water, whilst their heads become giddy and incapable of thinking as the sweat of fear paralyzes them." -- Shaka Zulu

In remembrance of our old homeland on SB and one of the mods there... :p "We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality." -- Heinz Guderian

I'm thinking this is for more serious military historical quotes. So unless it's a witticism expressed by a military figure in history Or other commentator it probably doesn't belong in this thread. Military humor might deserve it's own topic.

I figure that a military quote thread would probably be right up our alley considering what we already have going on. And we need more military threads anyways. :cool: "If they want eternal war, well and good; we accept the issue, and will dispossess them and put our friends in their place. I...