Added a bunch of quotations to the military quotations page:

http://www.civfanatics.com/misc/military_quotations/

Take a look. :) There are some good new ones but the old ones are still the best...

A bit crude this one, but I think it's very much true.

Fighting for peace is like f***ing for virginity.

I have to say, one of my favourites is:
"In the absence of orders, go and kill something"-Erwin Rommel.

Victory has a 1000 fathers, defeat is an orphan

How come no 'All your base are belong to us.."?? Surely that is one of the most thought provoking and moving statements about war;)

But how about this?

"I'd rather have an army of deer led by a lion than an army of lions led by a deer".
...I'll try to look for the source..

"I'd rather have an army of deer led by a lion than an army of lions led by a deer".
...I'll try to look for the source..

kinda like " a wooden fleet led by an iron admiral defeated an iron fleet led by a wooden admiral "

Who said the "All you base are belong to us" thingy?

Who said the "All you base are belong to us" thingy?

its an old video game I think

Who said the "All you base are belong to us" thingy?

I heard a story that it was from one of those multiplayer shooters. (over the net)

It involved two teams each with a base, objective was to capture the base.

Now some people upon the capture of the base said
"All of your base belongs to us,"

Then some foreign guy with a less than perfect grasp of english (still v. good though), came out with the legendry

"All your base are belong to us"

Ok i've got one Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and in very fine print at the back is whole page on Quotations to do with War.

I'm going to be busy.

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Military Quotes (n.b I chose ones I felt that meant something)

Brooks Aktinson (1894 - 1984)
American Journalist and critic
"After each war there is a little less deomcracy to save"
Once around the Sun (1951) 7 January.

Pierre Bosquet (1810 - 61)
French General
"C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre."
"It is magnificant, but it is not war."
On the Charge of the light brigade at Balaclava, 25 October 1854

Proverb
"Councils of War Never Fight"
mid 19th Centuary

John Dryden
"All delays are dangerous in war."
Tyrannical love (1669) act 1, sc. 1

Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
French Statesman; Prime Minister of France (1906-9, 1917-20)
"It is easier to make war than to make Peace"
Speech at Verdun 20 July 1919

R. Buckminister Fuller (1895 - 1983)
American Designer and Architect
"Either War is Obsolete or men are."
In New Yorker 8 January 1966

Simone Weil (1909 - 43)
French essayist and Philosopher
"What a country calls its vital economic intrests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war."
La Peasantuer et la grace (1948)

Thomas Babington Macauly (1800 - 59)
English Politician and historian
"He knew the essence of war is Violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility."
Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh review (1841) vol 1 'John Hampden'

Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 93)
English Dramatist and poet
"Accurst be he that first invented war"
Tamburlaine the Great (1590) pt 1, act 1 sc 2

Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
French Soldier and Statesman; President of France (1959-69)
"Since they whose duty it was to wield the sword of France have let it fall shattered to the ground, I have taken up the broken blade."
Speech 13 July 1940

Finish 11:50

I've done about 1/5 of them (looked through finish more tommorrow if i rem.

The "All your base are belong to us" comes from an old crappy Japanese cartridge game. When it was made in Japan, they screwed up the English translations and nver fixed it. There were alot of funny messed up quotes in that games. Thats just the most famous one.

Some of my favorite quotes are from Douglas MacArthur.

Old soldiers never die and second hand of destiny and we will land at Inchon and I will crush them are two of my favorites from him.

The "All your base are belong to us" comes from an old crappy Japanese cartridge game. When it was made in Japan, they screwed up the English translations and nver fixed it. There were alot of funny messed up quotes in that games. Thats just the most famous one.

Some of my favorite quotes are from Douglas MacArthur.


Yep, that's right. It's got a load like
"Captain-someone set us up the bomb" and "Launch every Zig for Great Glory!"

" Retreat hell!, We're just attacking in another direction! "

O.P. Smith--retreat from the Yalu, korea

kill em all... let god sort them out...Patton. master of all quotes!. but i love " Retreat hell!, We're just attacking in another direction! "...thats actually a book title..( retreat hell!) by W E B Griffin.. I got most of his books!

"Gracie Fields is making water and needs assistance" (WW2 signal about a non-combatant vessel hit by enemy fire).

This is a true anecdote....A convoy in the Atlantic or somewhere had a German Condor observation plane flying over the top of it, circling over and over. It was high enough that none of the ships could attain it with anti-aircraft fire.
From one of the ships, an Aldis lamp started blinking. It blinked "You are making us dizzy. Please circle in other direction".
At which point the Condor did turn around, and proceed to circle the other direction!

A bit crude this one, but I think it's very much true.

Fighting for peace is like f***ing for virginity.

Although for what it's worth, f!@#ing does tend to cause virginity in the long run, as every virgin who has ever lived came as the result of f$%^ing.

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." -- Major General John Sedgwick

(He was killed by a sniper a few minutes later.)

This may not be relevant but once in Axis and Allies Iron blitz Edition for PC, my mate said "I seriously doubt the Japanese can sink my flee now, im gonna start to prepare for invation" And on Japans next turn they sunk his hole fleet, weve rarely played the game since.......

Stupidity got us into this mess, why won't stupidity get us out?
~Will Rogers

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." -- Major General John Sedgwick

(He was killed by a sniper a few minutes later.)

I thought he didn't even finish the word 'distance' before a confederate bullet went through his head.

No, someone changed the quotation to make it more effective.

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That was a great quote, anyways see my sig for a good quote.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both

Reminds me of what Terry Pratchett said about this.

"Lord Vetinari feels it is better to be permanent than either" :D

Talking about that a moment, I always loved his remark on democracy, discworld style

Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.

:goodjob:

four quotes we should hear more of today:

"A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood"

"Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that paper hanging son-of-a-b*tch Hitler. Just like I'd shoot a snake!"

"War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula"

"Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way"

- Patton -

Natürlich wollen die Menschen keinen Krieg. Das ist einfach. Alles, was Sie tun müssen, ist, ihnen zu sagen, dass sie angegriffen werden und die Kriegsgegner dafür zu denunzieren, dass ihnen Partiotismus fehlt und sie das Land einer Gefahr aussetzen. Es funktioniert in jedem Land gleichermassen.

(Naturally the people don't want war. That's simple. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.)

-Hermann Göring

"For war one needs three things: money, money and money."
Raimundo Montecucolli.

@TF- The final quote on the page by Jack Handey appears in the list twice.