Rick

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 bastard die for his country.

In war nothing is impossible, provided you use audacity.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

- George Patton

Rick

General Sherman approaches General Grant's tent after a day of devastating losses for the Union at the Battle of Shiloh:

General Sherman: "We've had the devil's own day of it, haven't we?"

General Grant: "Yes. . . . Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

joep182

We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry it: to his home, to his centers of entertainment; a total war. It is necessary to prevent him from having a moment of peace, a quiet moment outside his barracks or even inside; we must attack him wherever he may be, make him feel like a cornered beast wherever he may move. - Che Guevara

Rick

"The only good commie is a dead commie" - Rick

Purple Tang

'Do not under estimate the power of the dark side.'

Rick

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

"When I warned [the French] that Britain would fight on alone, whatever they did, their Generals told their Prime Minister and his divided cabinet: 'In three weeks, England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.

"Some chicken....Some neck!

- Sir Winston Churchill

Kazikli Bey

'When you refuse to give in with all your heart is when you begin to transcend your humanity'
- Unknown

'I know not what weapons WW3 will be fought with but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones'
- Einstein

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living."
- General Omar Bradley

"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."
- Joseph Stalin

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their
country."
- Bertrand Russell

"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
- George Orwell

"The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky."
- Solomon Short

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so
fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the
fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death,
will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."
- Thomas A. Edison

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my
enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
- Voltaire

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factfinder

1. A dead warmonger bites not.
2. A dead hostage is dumb to say how hot the electric owen was.
3. Dirt is only a matter out of place, and was is a blot on the conscience of a gentle man may be a jewel in the crown of revolutionaries .
4."The world will become a lunatic asylum run by lunatics, so our task is to make Germany a fit country for lunataics to live in " Hitler.

Kazikli Bey

'The only good capitalist is a dead capitalist' - Kazikli Bey

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Viv

Most Holy Father and Lord, we know and from the chronicles and books of the ancients we find that among other famous nations our own, the Scots, has been graced with widespread renown. They journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage tribes, but nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however barbarous. Thence they came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to their home in the west where they still live today. The Britons they first drove out, the Picts they utterly destroyed, and, even though very often assailed by the Norwegians, the Danes and the English, they took possession of that home with many victories and untold efforts; and, as the historians of old time bear witness, they have held it free of all bondage ever since. In their kingdom there have reigned one hundred and thirteen kings of their own royal stock, the line unbroken a single foreigner.

The high qualities and deserts of these people, were they not otherwise manifest, gain glory enough from this: that the King of kings and Lord of lords, our Lord Jesus Christ, after His Passion and Resurrection, called them, even though settled in the uttermost parts of the earth, almost the first to His most holy faith. Nor would He have them confirmed in that faith by merely anyone but by the first of His Apostles -- by calling, though second or third in rank -- the most gentle Saint Andrew, the Blessed Peter's brother, and desired him to keep them under his protection as their patron forever.

The Most Holy Fathers your predecessors gave careful heed to these things and bestowed many favours and numerous privileges on this same kingdom and people, as being the special charge of the Blessed Peter's brother. Thus our nation under their protection did indeed live in freedom and peace up to the time when that mighty prince the King of the English, Edward, the father of the one who reigns today, when our kingdom had no head and our people harboured no malice or treachery and were then unused to wars or invasions, came in the guise of a friend and ally to harass them as an enemy. The deeds of cruelty, massacre, violence, pillage, arson, imprisoning prelates, burning down monasteries, robbing and killing monks and nuns, and yet other outrages without number which he committed against our people, sparing neither age nor sex, religion nor rank, no one could describe nor fully imagine unless he had seen them with his own eyes.

But from these countless evils we have been set free, by the help of Him Who though He afflicts yet heals and restores, by our most tireless Prince, King and Lord, the Lord Robert. He, that his people and his heritage might be delivered out of the hands of our enemies, met toil and fatigue, hunger and peril, like another Macabaeus or Joshua and bore them cheerfully. Him, too, divine providence, his right of succession according to or laws and customs which we shall maintain to the death, and the due consent and assent of us all have made our Prince and King. To him, as to the man by whom salvation has been wrought unto our people, we are bound both by law and by his merits that our freedom may be still maintained, and by him, come what may, we mean to stand.

Yet if he should give up what he has begun, and agree to make us or our kingdom subject to the King of England or the English, we should exert ourselves at once to drive him out as our enemy and a subverter of his own rights and ours, and make some other man who was well able to defend us our King; for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom -- for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.