Famous Quotes

[Rising_General]

Were do I begin? as a student of history I have a large collection of favorites. here I will list a few.


This one spoken by Ulysses S. Grant for those of you unsure of who he was he was one of the greater generals in the civil war. however he also struggled with alcohol and when president, a very corrupt cabinet.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving.
Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885)


The ancient Roman expression "if you want peace prepare for war" -"Epitoma Rei Militaris," by Vegetius



And for all you George Bush critics (I am not included in those ranks). You may love this for its stupidity, I love it for its humor. What's the use of sending a $2 million missile into a $10 tent to hit a camel in the butt? --George W. Bush


Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance."
Gen. --George S. Patton


War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. --John Stewart Mill


JS,

[Byzantine Prince]

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Attributed to Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945)

[Craterus]

What happened to Mussolini? I never knew he died in 1945
P.S. I like the qoutes in my name.

[Hurin_Rules]

Napoleon said something like, "The moral is to the physical as three is to one."

I also like the words that the fourteenth century mercenary captain Werner von Urslingen had emblazoned on his breastplate:

"Enemy to God.
Enemy to Piety.
Enemy to Pity."

[Mouzafphaerre]

What happened to Mussolini? I never knew he died in 1945
P.S. I like the qoutes in my name.

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IIRC he was slaughtered along with his mistress in late 1943 by the communist "partisans". Germany invaded part of Italy afterwards, the US taking the rest. The two fought over the peninsula and you know who won.
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[Rodion Romanovich]

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IIRC he was slaughtered along with his mistress in late 1943 by the communist "partisans". Germany invaded part of Italy afterwards, the US taking the rest. The two fought over the peninsula and you know who won.
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He was taken prisoner in perhaps 1943, if I remember correctly. The germans carried out a covert raid and released him and transported him to Germany. At the end of the war, at about the time when the allies crossed the Po and broke the last really strong German defensive line in Italy, Mussolini and his mistress were captured and executed by the Italian partisans somewhere in northern Italy.

[Craterus]

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Attributed to Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945)

BP said he died in 1945. I never knew about the communists killing him though, thanks..

[Constantinius]

Roman officer: "Cake or death"
Condemned christian, "Cake please"
Officer, "fine give him cake" (to next christian) "cake or death"
Next christian, "Cake please"
Officer, "Fine, give him cake as well" (to last christian) "cake or death"
Last Christian, "Cake please"
Officer, "Well we're all out of cake"
Last christian, "So my options are...or death?"
Officer, "We have already given out all the cake, we weren't expecting such a rush"

Quoted by Eddie Izzard

[kallitheus]

''Undoubtedly,your heighness will reach Sicily on time for the Vespers''

Spanish diplomat in France,referring to the ''Night of the Sicilian Vespers'' incident,1282,where during the night of the vespers a couple thousand of frenchmen were slaughtered by the revolving sicilian people at Palermo,and replying to King Henry's IV threat:

''I shall have breakfast in Milan,and i will take lunch in Rome'' ,

where he implied what he could do to the Spanish holdings in Italy,during the 15th century.

[Rodion Romanovich]

BTW I can't believe nobody has mentioned the quotes from Churchill. In their simplicity they're quite fun. Here they are (perhaps slightly incorrectly quoted):

Never in the history of warfare have so many had so few to thank for so much.
- About the British fighter pilots during the Blitz

This is not the end, not even the beginning of the end, but perhaps this is the end of the beginning
- At the time of operation overlord, I think

[Drisos]

"You shall not pass!"

gandalf, LOTR, part 1.

[Franconicus]

BP said he died in 1945. I never knew about the communists killing him though, thanks..

Here is what I know about it:

After the Allied landed in Sicily there was a putsch against Mussolini. One of the leaders was the Italian king. M was arrested. Italy made peace with the Allies. Note that there were still many Germans in Italy, esp. fighting in the South and many Italian fighting in Russia.

Germans troops occupied the north of Italy and arrested the Italian soldiers in Russia and made them go on fighting. They established an "Italian" state in northern Italy. German special forces managed to free M and he was leader of the new "state". Italy declared war on Germany. In northern Itaky there was the complete chaos. There were communist partisans as well as Italian fashists and German troops. Allied fighters and bombers attacked everything. The front in the South came closer and closer. In this chaos M was killed by partisans in 1945.

Hope what I wrote is correct and helpful.