War And Battle: The Quotations

Right Wing News ^ | 11/10/2002 | By John Hawkins

[John Lenin]

More gems from RWN.

[Psycho Francis]

Thanks, good article.

"Veni, Vedi, Velcro" (I came, I saw, I stuck around) -- me, and a lot of other people.... ;>)

[John Lenin]

My personal favorite.

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself" -- John Stuart Mill

[Dan Day]

"Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves."
--Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965),_The Gathering Storm,_bk.I ch.19 p.348 (Houghton Mifflin, 1948)

And:

Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone: it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery. Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable. And let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come!

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace. The war is actually begun. The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms. Our brethren are already in the field. Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? what would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
-- Patrick Henry, "The War Inevitable", March 23, 1775

[AFPhys]

"When I respond, it will not be by firing a two million dollar missile at a ten dollar tent just to hit a camel in the butt." George W. Bush Sept'01 (sorry about the close paraphrase, Mr.President)

[rockfish59]

KILL JAPS, KILL JAPS, KILL MORE JAPS!

Admiral Halsey

[John Lenin]

Yep, W is in the book of war quotes with that statement.

[Jarhead_22]

"The Marines have landed and have the situation well in hand."
-Richard Harding Davis

"Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency: we are winning."
-Colonel David M. Shoup, USMC, Tarawa

"Retreat hell! We just got here!" -Captain Lloyd Williams, USMC, Belleau Wood

"Have gone to Florida to fight Indians.
Will be back when war is over,

A. Henderson
Col. Commandant"
-Sign left on Colonel Archibald Henderson, Commandant of the Marine Corps' locked office door.

[John Lenin]

How about your buddy Ted, he's got a good one.

Nuclear war would really set back cable.

--Ted Turner

[John Lenin]

"The French will only be united under the threat of danger. Nobody can simply bring together a country that has 265 kinds of cheese." -- Charles A.J.M de Gaulle, Speech, 1951

[Jarhead_22]

How about your buddy Ted, he's got a good one.

My buddy? I wouldn't cross the street to watch Ted Turner slit his wrists.

[John Lenin]

It's a joke, gnight ...

[Jarhead_22]

Sleep well

[Grizzly Bear]

MOLON LABE

King Leonidis of Sparta

[Fiddlstix]

Great post!

[In veno, veritas]

"When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell" -- Admiral Bill Halsey on Decemeber 7, 2001?

[MetalHeadConservative35]

i have a couple ive heard

"yay as i walk through the valley of the shadow of death..i shall fear no evil...cuz im the baddest mother------

and my favorite: We Came,We Saw,We Kicked Its @$$

[Gunrunner2]

"War is extreme violence.” Gen Norman Schwarzkopf (said in response to a reporters silly observation that our attacks on the retreating Iraqi army on the “highway of death” were “extreme.”

[Jonah Hex]

Actually, I would cross the street to watch Ted Turner slit his wrists. Hell, I'd watch it on pay-per-view!

[Tennessee_Bob]

I like the quote from my tattoo.

Aut Vincere Aut Mori