FAMOUS QUOTES
“That what is agreed to
be done, must be considered as done.”
Lord Hardwicke, L.C., 1745
“When down in the mouth,
remember Jonah. He came out all right.”
Found in the desk of Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931)
“Privates should not be conspicuous. In the combat zone,
it draws fire. Out of the combat zone, it draws
sergeants.”
Murphy’s Laws of Combat
“Battles are sometimes
won by generals; wars are
nearly always won by sergeants and privates.”
F. E. Adcock, British Classical Scholar
“Overpaid, Oversexed,
and Over Here.”
British Welcome
“The better part of
valor is discretion, in the
which better part I have saved my life.”
William Shakespeare
“I hate war as only a
soldier who has lived it can, only as one
who has seen its brutality, its futility, its
stupidity.”
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Military Intelligence
is a contradiction in terms.”
Groucho Marx
“No bastard ever won a
war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for
his country.”
General George S. Patton, Jr.
“A time to
love, and a time to hate; a time
of war, and a time of peace.”
Ecclesiastes 3:8
If Hitler
invaded Hell, I would at least make a favorable
reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.”
Winston Churchill
“The broad
mass of a nation … will more easily fall
victim to a big lie than to a small one.”
Adolph Hitler (1889 - 1945)
“Wisdom too
often never comes, and so one ought
not to reject it, merely because it comes late.”
Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court Justice
“Our
Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may
she
always be in the right; but right or wrong, our
country.”
Stephen Decatur (1779 - 1820)
“Dec. 7,
1941, a date that will live in Infamy.
The United States of America was suddenly and
deliberately
attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of
Japan.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“My most
brilliant achievement was... to persuade my wife to
marry me.”
Winston Churchill
