I scouted aroun wikiquotes.org for some good ones for the differnt techs. I mostly found misc quotes that had something to do with war, but I'd like to put them somewhere.
Here's a list:
Patton:
I don't want to get any messages saying, "I am holding my position." We are not holding a Goddamned thing. Let the Germans do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy's balls. We are going to twist his balls and kick the living **** out of him all of the time. Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy. We are going to go through him like crap through a goose; like **** through a tin horn!
There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the great World War II, you won't have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, "Well, your Granddaddy shoveled **** in Louisiana." No, Sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say, "Son, your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son-of-a-Goddamned-***** named Georgie Patton!
Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man. Anything built by man, can be destroyed by him.
Hold'em by the nose and kick'em in the pants.
Just drive down that road until you get blown up.
- Instructions to reconnaissance troops
Now I want you to remember that 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.
Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!
- Upon defeating Erwin Rommel's forces in North Africa
There's only one proper way for a professional soldier to die: the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
When a man is lying in a shell hole, if he just stays there all day, a German will get to him eventually. The hell with that idea. The hell with taking it. My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either. We'll win this war, but we'll win it only by fighting and by showing the Germans that we've got more guts than they have; or ever will have.
All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters, either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.
Napoleon:
An army marches on its stomach.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Caesar:
Veni, vidi, vici.
- I came, I saw, I conquered.
Alea iacta est.
- Translation: The dice is cast.
Rommel:
In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.
Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, and brains saves both.
Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
Monty:
The US has broken the second rule of war. That is, don't go fighting with your land army on the mainland of Asia. Rule One is don't march on Moscow. I developed these two rules myself."
- In the House of Lords on American policy in Vietnam, 1962.
MacArthur:
In war, there is no substitute for victory. Whoever said the pen is mighter than the sword never saw a machine gun.
Arabian Lawrence:
Lawrence: Oh, thanks, Dryden, this is going to be fun.
Dryden: Lawrence, only two kinds of creature get fun in the desert - Bedouins and gods, and you're neither. Take it from me. For ordinary men it's a burning, fiery furnace.
Lawrence: No, Dryden; it's going to be fun.
Dryden: It is recognised that you have a funny sense of fun.
Churchill:
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.
Never in the field of human conflict has so much, been owed by so many, to so few.
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'
So little time, so much to do.
Hitler:
I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.
Das ist Totalen Krieg!
- This is Total War!
All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself.
Stalin:
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Not a step back!
Quantity is quality.
Eisenhower:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
George Wallace:
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?
Göring:
No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer.
Einstein:
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Frederik the Great:
If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
Robert E. Lee:
It is well that war is so terrible - lest we should grow too fond of it.
C&C:
Kane: The people only believe what the media tells them to believe, and I tell the media what to believe. It's really quite simple.
Kane: He who controls the past, commands the future. He who commands the future, conquers the past.
