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[Centurion1]

True point AM. I think the real line should be a FEW study politics and war so the rest of us can do whatever the &%^ we want.

[Ariovistus Maximus]

Quite.

[King Kurt]

Three from me

The one paraphrased in my sig:

Bill Shankly, legandary manager of Liverpool Football Club

"Some people say that football is a matter of life or death, but you have to realise it is more important than that"

The second is the mantra that I have wargamed and gamed with for many years. It comes from the Confederate general General Nathan Bedford Forrest:

"Get there firstest with the mostest"

Some people say that is a misquote and he really said "to git thar fust with the most men." - But I prefer the other - and we never want facts to get in the way of a good quotation. I have practised this simple rule in many walks of gaming from figures to PC and I do think it works.

Finally a master piece of irony - the last words of Major General John Sedgwick of the Union Army, also in the American Civil War:

"I'm ashamed of you, dodging that way. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."

Just seconds later he fell forward with a bullet hole below his left eye.

I will let Wiki tell the story:

"In a rather ironic turn of events, Sedgwick fell at the beginning of the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, on May 9, 1864. His corps was probing skirmish lines ahead of the left flank of Confederate defenses and he was directing artillery placements. Confederate sharpshooters were about 1,000 yards (910 m) away and their shots caused members of his staff and artillerymen to duck for cover. Sedgwick strode around in the open and was quoted as saying, "What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." Although ashamed, his men continued to flinch and he repeated, "I'm ashamed of you, dodging that way. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." Just seconds later he fell forward with a bullet hole below his left eye.

Sedgwick was the highest ranking Union casualty in the Civil War. Although James B. McPherson was in command of an army at the time of his death and Sedgwick of a corps, Sedgwick had the most senior rank by date of all major generals killed. Upon hearing of his death, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant repeatedly asked, "Is he really dead?"

[Sarmatian]

As football has already been mentioned, I have post this one by Gary Lineker...


"Football is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins." - Gary Lineker

[rotorgun]

Here is a good one from Napoleon Bonaparte that I wish the American high command would consider applying in their current dilemma.

If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.-Bonaparte

He must have known what he was talking about if the Duke of Wellington said of him, early in the Waterloo campaign, "By God, but that man does war honor"

[Ariovistus Maximus]

Oh sooooooo true Rotorgun.

We could have applied that much better in quite a few wars by now.

War of all things is not a good endeavor to enter half-heartedly.

[CBR]

Here is a good one from Napoleon Bonaparte that I wish the American high command would consider applying in their current dilemma.

If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.-Bonaparte

He must have known what he was talking about if the Duke of Wellington said of him, early in the Waterloo campaign, "By God, but that man does war honor"

And yet he ended up with a certain ulcer.


CBR

[Caius]

"In peace, sons bury their father. In war, father bury their sons."
-Herodotus

"It could break but do not make it bend!"
-Leandro Alem, founder of the Radical Union Party. Looks like it is very similar to WH post:

"Flecti non frangi" - "May be bent, not broken".

[rotorgun]

And yet he ended up with a certain ulcer.


CBR

-Indeed CBR..chuckle.

One of my favorites- Remember that your equipment is made by the lowest bidder
-one of Murphy's Laws...Murphy was an optimist.