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There is no instance of a country having benefited
from prolonged warfare. -Sun Zu's "The Art of War"Post your own.
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The entire poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est.". Wilfred Owen if I'm not mistaken.
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"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 the others back."
- Heraclitus"In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons."
-Heroditus, greek historian c. 484-425 B.C."The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it’s time to fight"
- Homer, The Iliad (c. 800BC) -
Gray Mane wrote:
Caesar, correct?We few, We happy few, We band of brothers, For he that bleeds with me today shall be my brother. And those afraid to go will feel themselves lesser men when they hear of how we fought and died together.
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"We few we happy few we band of brothers for he that bleeds with me today shall be my brother and those who didn't go with us shall fell themselves lesser men when the hear of how we fought and died together." - Shakespeare
King Henry V -
Forgot the quotation.
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"War Is Hell"
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"War! (hey-yeah) What is it good for! A
bsolutely nothing!
Say it again!"
-Bruce Springsteen, who covered someone older and wiser, whom I have seen play the track but cannot remember the name heya... -
Bloody autoformat.
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There are nine grounds on which we battle, and in all the world there is only nine. Knowing the ground you stand on, and the ground of your enemy is crucial to the success of your action.
- me, paraphrasing Tom Clearys translation of Sun Tzu's classic "The Art Of War" -
"the object of war isnt to die for your country, its to make the other poor bastard die for his" - general patton
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"Je vous répondrai par la bouche des mes canons!!!" Frontenac
Traduction :
I will answer you by the mouth of my cannons!!! -
"War is old men talking and young men dying."
I heard it from the film troy.
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"A new age has begun. An age of freedom. And all will know that 300 Spartans took their last breath to defend it!"
"We will stand and fight. And die."
Both are Leonidas from "300"
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Veni, vidi, vici - Julius Caesar re his campaign in Turkey.
Incorrectly translated as "I came, I saw, I conquered" for years. It actually means "I came, I yawned, I conquered". A true yawn member there!!
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"To the German Commander. Nuts! The American Commander." Anthony McAuliffe, General, U.S. Army, Dec. 22, 1944.
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Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar!
-GOD OF WAR -
This is Sparta
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"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
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"Live for something rather than die for nothing." - Patton
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It's always the soldiers, not the leaders who bleed....
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I know not what weapons will be used to fight WWIII, but I am certain WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones~Einstein
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"'Forward, the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismay'd ?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Some one had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do & die,
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred." -
Good post angel. When I first read it I was not expecting such good quotes
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I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. ~George McGovern
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Edward Kelly wrote:
War huh wat is it good for!!!🎼🎵🎼🎵🎼"War! (hey-yeah) What is it good for! A
bsolutely nothing!
Say it again!"
-Bruce Springsteen, who covered someone older and wiser, whom I have seen play the track but cannot remember the name heya... -
Sal Pacone wrote:
🎼🎵🎼don't slow down u might get through it before the devil even knows ur thererere!🎼🎵🎼🎵🎼-some country singer"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
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Fight not with monsters lest u become like them but fight against monsters all the while remembering who u are and wat u r fighting for
-me
we are going to fight, we will die, wemwill bring as many of those motha f***in enemies down with us and if ur not i'n this with me then stay back and remember how we fight tonight, remember
the alamooo!
-paraphrase of the general guyOf course
I pity the foo!!
-mr tWapow!
-chuck Norris -
"A prisoner of war is someone who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him." -Winston Churchill (My favorite leader)
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"they couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-"
General John Sedgwicks last words, uttered during a U.S. Civil War battle, 1864 -
"kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out." Attributed to G. Patton but originally said by Arnaud-Armaury during the Crusades.
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