Great Jehova and the Continental Congress!

[Zkribbler]

A friend of mine were talking on how U.S. history has loads of great military quotes, but other nations don't appear to have such a rich tradition.

F'Example:
When the British Commander of Ticonderoga asked to whom he was surrendering, he received the thundering reply "To Great Jehova and the Continental Congress!"

Others are:
"Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes!"
"I have not yet begun to fight!"
"We have met the enemy, and he is ours!"
"War is hell."
"Lafayette, we are here!"
"I shall return."
"Nuts!"
"Retreat hell! We're just attacking in a different direction!"

The Brits have:
"England expects every man to do his duty."

Help me out here. What are some others?

[Saras]

Nosey was a bit of allright:

Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won.

Yes, and they went down very well too.
- A retort to a comment on how very well French cavalry had come up at Waterloo.

Up, Guards, and at 'em.

[Saras]

oh, and just found this:

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Saras
Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won.

That's a good 'un.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

"War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it."

"Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future"

Both by Sir Basil H. Liddel-Hart


"Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry."

"Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking"


Both by Oliver Cromwell.

"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."

Winston Churchill

"Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates."

F.E. Adcock

[Dauphin]

"Come on you sons of *****es! Do you want to live forever?"



And there are a tonne of Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf quotes you could pull out from the file.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."

Winston Churchill

And another good one by Winnie (when he was cricized for complimenting Stalin):

"I'm sure that, if Hitler invaded the Infernal Regions, I could find something nice to say about Satan to Parliment."

...of course, then Winnie was serving as a politician, not a military man. I'm searching for military quotes...esp. non-Yank quotes.

[OzzyKP]

"In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it."
- Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

Can't be too hard to find military quotes. Maybe try military-quotes.com...

http://www.military-quotes.com/quotes.htm

[Zkribbler]

Most of the quote appear to be from political leaders, military theorists and Americans.

But here's a good 'un from Goering about artillery:

Guns will make us powerful, butter will only make us fat.
Hermann Goering

[Dauphin]

Oh the irony.

[Patroklos]

I guess he had to prove it himself, like any good leader

[Dr Strangelove]

"Give the crowd a little whiff of grapeshot"

"Cavalry left over at the end of a campaign is a waste."

"My wife Josephine has a little a**hole. Moi."


All by Napoleon Bonaparte.