"Out of every 100 men, ten shouldn't even be there, Eighty are just targets, Nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, One is a warrior, And he will bring t ( Heraclitus)
...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fea (Martin Luther King Jr., Speech in Memphis, April 3, 1968, the da)
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. (Sir Winston Churchill, on the eve of his 75th birthday)
'What the fuck was that??????????' Mayor of Hiroshima August 6th 1945 (JimBO)
Posted by: Tom Dobbs - Monday, 21 November 2005 23:15
Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum (Flavius Vegetius Renatus. Roman Military strategist. c. 390. A.D)
Posted by: Tom Dobbs - Monday, 21 November 2005 23:07
Yes, General, Laura Cohn with Business Week Magazine. It sounds like you've made some good progress on the oil fields in the south but that you might have a problem once you get to Baghdad. Could you tell us what your plan is to secure the oil fields? (CENTCOM News brief - 25 Mar 03)
Posted by: Tom Dobbs - Monday, 21 November 2005 23:05
There's no beer, no prostitutes and people are shooting at us. It's more like Portsmouth - an unnamed soldier on Sky News refutes claims that Iraqi city Umm Qasr is 'like Southampton' (an unnamed soldier)
Posted by: Tom Dobbs - Monday, 21 November 2005 23:02
All things are in God's hands and he doesn't want you for a sunbeam - he wants you for a soldier. He wants you to fight for truth and offer prayer for justice (Father Nick Gosnell, chaplain to 16th Air Assault Brigade)
Posted by: Tom Dobbs - Monday, 21 November 2005 23:00
We ain't making no goddamn cornflakes here (Col. Charlie Beckwith, founder of Delta Force)
Posted by: Tom Dobbs - Monday, 21 November 2005 22:56
To see the right and not to do it is cowardice (Confucius)
Posted by: Tom Dobbs - Monday, 21 November 2005 22:55
To throw bombs from an airplane will do as much damage as throwing bags of flour. It will be my pleasure to stand on the bridge of any ship while it is attacked by airplanes (Newton Baker, US minister of defense (1921))
Posted by: Tom Dobbs - Monday, 21 November 2005 22:54
Pearl Harbour Radio Operator: "Is there anything that we can provide?" Response from Marine Commander on Wake Island: "Send us more Japs!" .... Said to be one of the last radio transmissions received from the Marines on W (US Marine Corps)
Posted by: Tom Dobbs - Monday, 21 November 2005 22:50
The reason the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices it on a daily basis (from a post-war debriefing of a German General)
Posted by: Tom Dobbs - Monday, 21 November 2005 22:48
It was unworthy of our military sources that they were the first to weaken (Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf - aka Comical Ali)
Posted by: Tom Dobbs - Monday, 21 November 2005 22:46
In a man to man fight the winner is the one who puts an extra round in his magazine (Field Marshal Erwin Rommel)
Posted by: Tom Dobbs - Monday, 21 November 2005 22:46
In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it (Field Marshal Erwin Rommel)
Posted by: Tom Dobbs - Monday, 21 November 2005 22:45
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination (Karl von Clausewitz)
Posted by: Tom Dobbs - Monday, 21 November 2005 22:42
If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere (Karl von Clausewitz)
Posted by: Tom Dobbs - Monday, 21 November 2005 22:42
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious (Marcus Aurelius)
Posted by: Tom Dobbs - Monday, 21 November 2005 22:27
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. (Seneca)
Posted by: Tom Dobbs - Monday, 21 November 2005 22:26
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Posted by: Tom Dobbs - Monday, 21 November 2005 22:25
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. (W. Churchill)
Posted by: Lcpl - Saturday, 19 November 2005 11:36
Women should be obscene and not heard. (Groucho Marx)
Posted by: Lcpl - Saturday, 19 November 2005 11:34
I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt. (Groucho Marx)
Posted by: Salis - Saturday, 19 November 2005 09:35
A man's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink. (W.C. Fields)
Posted by: ADeadGuy - Friday, 18 November 2005 12:31
I am whats I am ! (Popeye)
Posted by: Blackadder - Tuesday, 15 November 2005 15:33
"Someone wants to see me at four in the morning? What is he, a giant lark?" (Edmund: 'Money')
Posted by: Blackadder - Tuesday, 15 November 2005 15:32
"I have a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel." (Edmund: 'Dish and Dishonesty)
Posted by: Blackadder - Tuesday, 15 November 2005 15:31
"Ha ! I laugh at danger and drop ice cubes down the vest of fear." (Edmund: 'Amy and Amiability')
Posted by: Blackadder - Tuesday, 15 November 2005 15:28
"Oh, God, God, God! What on earth was I drinking last night? My head feels like there's a Frenchman living in it." (-Edmund: 'Chains')
Posted by: Blackadder - Tuesday, 15 November 2005 15:26
"Morris dancing is the most fatuous, tenth-rate entertainment ever devised by man. Forty effeminate blacksmiths waving bits of cloth they've just wiped their noses on. How it's still going on in this day and age I'll never know. " (Edmund: 'Born to be King')
Posted by: Blackadder - Tuesday, 15 November 2005 15:25
"A chat with you and death loses its sting." (Edmund: 'Potato')
Posted by: Blackadder - Tuesday, 15 November 2005 15:24
"A man may fight for many things. His country, his friends, his principles, the glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn." (Edmund: 'Duel and Duality')
Posted by: Blackadder - Tuesday, 15 November 2005 15:22
"Don't be absurd. Such activities are totally beyond my mother. My father only got anywhere with her because he told her it was a cure for diarrhoea." (Edmund: 'Born to be King')
Posted by: Blackadder - Tuesday, 15 November 2005 15:20
"Oh, God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more." (Blackadder)
