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Husky_Khan

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"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 the Atlanta Campaign, American Civil War 1864.
 
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Husky_Khan said:
"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 thr Atlanta Campaign, American Civil War 1864.
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John Bell Hood, as the song goes, certainly raised Hell in Tennessee.... For the Confederacy.
 
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“ I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter.” -- Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, Indian Army.
 
Francis Urquhart

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Floridaman said:
Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war if there are two Americans and one Russian left alive, we win!
Thomas S. Power
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"Well, you'd better make sure that they're a man and a woman."
Professor William Kaufmann from the RAND Corporation

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Dulce et Decorum Est Propatria Mori- Horace, Odes.
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"That Old Lie." Wilfred Owen, 1917, in his poem 'Dulce et Decorum Est.'
 
Francis Urquhart

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He mistakes dying for one's country for dying for the ambition of "greater" men. There is a difference.
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Not in the eyes of the front-line soldiers of 1917 and especially in the cynical and bitter British. In their eyes, and this is what Wilfred Owing is trying to tell his readers, those British soldiers saw "dying for one's country" as simply a means by which the "greater men" tricked others into dying for them. These days, we would think that the "greater men" were politicians and senior officers but in the eyes of 1917 they were war profiteers. To quote Ramsey MacDonald "hard-faced men who looked as if they might have done well out of the war".

Owens makes another point in Dulce et Decorum Est which is also important and reflects the time it was written. Death on the battlefield isn't sweet and never has been. The men (and now women) who die there, mostly die screaming. Prior to WW1, people at home didn't know that. Owens and his fellow poets told them.
 
Husky_Khan

Husky_Khan

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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
 
Tyzuris

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Primarch to your glory& the glory of him on Earth!
Colonen Matti Laurila:
''Matti: Good day, men of southern Ostrobothnia! Soldiers: Good day, sir colonel!

Matti: View in front, now! Arms, to the ground! At ease.

As so many times before, the Finnish man has to take arms. An old enemy of Russia, is trying to invade us. We do not want war. We want peace.
But that is not what the others have given us. Stalin, and Otto Ville Kuusinen, who we had driven out of this country in 1918. The Finnish Army has showed in these days, that there will be no happy marching into our country. And on this day, The Finnish Independence day, it is our turn now boys. We will not give an inch without fight. Give a three times 'Long Live' Shout for The Fatherland, For the Finnish Army, And for Commander-in-Chief Mannerheim. Long live, Long live, Long live.''
 
Argent

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I am kind of supised the thread made it to page 3 without this quote

"December 22, 1944

To the German Commander,

N U T S !

The American Commander"

Proving that McAuliffe had balls of steel.


Some other qoutes

"Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard." -- President John F. Kennedy

"These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor -- and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror." -- Michael N. Castle

"A great deal of the capability of an army is its dedication to its cause and its will to fight. You can have the best equipment in the world, you can have the largest numbers in the world, but, if you're not dedicated to your cause, if you don't have the will to fight, then, you are not going to have a very good army." Norman Schwarzkopf

"The army teachs boys to think like men" Elvis Presley
 
Husky_Khan

Husky_Khan

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"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 estates in England) chooses to support his own claim for Scotland instead of following his Fathers allegiance to King Edward I.

A good speech that might be actually not been embellished/fabricated by later hagiographers/historians.
 
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