Famous Quotes

[Franconicus]

NO PASERAN (they shall not pass)

Slogan of the Republicans in the Spamnish civil war 1936-39

[Franconicus]

Keine Gefangene!
(No Prisoners)

Feldmarschall Blücher at the final attack of the Prussians at Waterloo in 1815

[Franconicus]

Another Waterloo (or Belle Alliance) quote:

Either night or the Prussians must come!
Lord Wellington, before the Prussians arrived.

[Franconicus]

Solitudinem faciunt, pacem apellant
(They create a dessert and call it peace) - Tacitus

There was never a good war, or a bad peace
Benjamin Franklin

These ones are to all who think war can make a better world!

[Etym]

@Franconicus . . . yeah, that's the one. Thanks for the original version! But, uh, you might want to re-translate "solitudinem": desserts have a lot of calories, whereas deserts have virtually no water (or calories).

[Naughtius Maximus]

Not all of my favorite quotes are military:

" The wallpaper here is atrocious. I or it has to go...."- The reputed last words of Oscar Wilde

" Dance music? I could have made that with a pair of windshield wipers and an out of tune old saxaphone playing ' My Melancholy Baby' " - Artie Shaw
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My favorite military ones:

" They came on in the same old way, and we stopped them in the same old way" - The Duke of Wellington

" The Canadians are the best troops Monty has- and they're Americans!"
- George S. Patton

" Where is Grouchy?" - Napoleon

" McLellan brought superior numbers, that is true. But he also brought himself" - (I can't remember which Confederate Gen'l said that...perhaps one of the American Civil War scholars can tell me.)

[seghillian]

My all time favourite military quote was made following the war against Iraq in Operation Desert Storm. Lieutenant General Tom Kelly, speaking of the Iraq army in a post conflict briefing said that :-

"In 100 hours they went from being the fourth-largest army in the world to the second-largest army in Iraq." (lol!)