Military Quotes

[Harlock]

"I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but by God, they terrify me."
-The Duke of Wellington (apparently) on his own army.

"Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil."
-Nelson

"Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon."
-Also Nelson

 

[Husky_Khan]

"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.

 

[Lord Sovereign]

"No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer."

The First Duke of Marlborough, John Churchill. Otherwise known as the greatest captain of men in British history.

 

[LTR]

'Now when you mourn our glorious dead, Remember what Wingate said, "Somewhere, somehow, I know not where, You will proudly stand and say I was there."'

 

[Zachowon]

"It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man."
- General Creighton Abrams Jr.
Father of USFK General Robert Abrams.

"We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too"
-General Curtis E. LeMay

 

[Husky_Khan]

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 there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.

Unhappily, I possess neither that eloquence of diction, that poetry of imagination, nor that brilliance of metaphor to tell you all that they mean.

The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase. Every pedant, every demagogue, every cynic, every hypocrite, every troublemaker, and, I am sorry to say, some others of an entirely different character, will try to downgrade them even to the extent of mockery and ridicule.

But these are some of the things they do. They build your basic character. They mold you for your future roles as the custodians of the nation's defense. They make you strong enough to know when you are weak, and brave enough to face yourself when you are afraid."

...

"In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. But in the evening of my memory I come back to West Point. Always there echoes and re-echoes: Duty, Honor, Country.

Today marks my final roll call with you. But I want you to know that when I cross the river, my last conscious thoughts will be of the Corps, and the Corps, and the Corps."

- General Douglas MacArthur, part of the Farewell speech he gave to the students at West Point on 12 May 1962 on the occasion of his receiving the Sylvanus Thayer Award.

Duty, honor, country - Wikisource, the free online library

en.wikisource.org

 

[Husky_Khan]

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



It's amazing.

 

[bintananth]

"Please deliver this to my sister" *

The USPS did. The package? A captured Confederate Battle Flag.

* or something like that because she wasn't just his sister.

 

[Simonbob]

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

George Patton.

Always liked that one.

 

[bintananth]

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

George Patton.

Always liked that one.

"Bring It" is one that I'm fond of. No one has ever stood up to me and accepted the challenge after I said that.