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"Nuts" said by General Anthony Clement McAuliffe in response to the German ultimatum to surrender Bastogne. A classic!
Another favorite of course, is "Veni, Vidi, Vici, which roughly translates to "I came, I saw, I conquered" said by Caesar, after his brief war with Pharnaces II.
Those are the two favorites that come to mind. What else you got? The second I dig do much I made:
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Hopefully the long distant relatives of JC don't have (TM) or something on that quote. :cool:
SeriousStudent
03-22-12, 18:56
"I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you **** with me, I'll kill you all."
James Mattis
General, USMC
"I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you **** with me, I'll kill you all."
James Mattis
General, USMC
How about some context to the above! :blink:
Cagemonkey
03-22-12, 19:17
"I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you **** with me, I'll kill you all."
James Mattis
General, USMCAwesome quote from the Warrior Monk.
"I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you **** with me, I'll kill you all."
James Mattis
General, USMC
He's got quite a few good in-your-face quotes. Certainly doesn't mince words. Probably not the most politically astute way of getting your point across, but you'll damn well get the point.
Gen. James Mattis quotes (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Mattis)
Failure2Stop
03-22-12, 19:31
How about some context to the above! :blink:
Said during a meeting with the tribal elders in Al Anbar just before we burned Fallujah down.
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Gutshot John
03-22-12, 19:39
How about some context to the above! :blink:
He was speaking to Iraqi tribal elders in is AO after the invasion of Iraq.
As for my favorite war quotes...
"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace." - General William Tecumseh Sherman
Moose-Knuckle
03-22-12, 20:12
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SeriousStudent
03-22-12, 20:14
Awesome quote from the Warrior Monk.
Indeed. I'd love to spend a month in his personal library, with a box of cigars and a case of good Bourbon.
You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. ... As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.
I may not agree with everything Patton said, but this one always struck me.
2LT George Rice: "Looks like you guys are going to be surrounded."
MAJ Richard Winters: "We're paratroopers, Lieutenant. We're supposed to be surrounded."
CPT Ronald Spiers: "The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it."
Eurodriver
03-23-12, 08:36
I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold.
1stLt. Clifton B. Cates, USMC
in Belleau Wood, 19 July 1918
"By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability and expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, altho' death was levelling my companions on every side." - George Washington
"Luttrell just found the shitter again!”:D:D
"Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit so long as your men have strength to follow; for an army routed, if hotly pursued, becomes panic-stricken, and can then be destroyed by half their number. The other rule is, never fight against heavy odds, if by any possible maneuvering you can hurl your own force on only a part, and that the weakest part, of your enemy and crush it. Such tactics will win every time, and a small army may thus destroy a large one in detail, and repeated victory will make it invincible." - Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Spoken 150 years ago, the principals still are strategically and tactically sound. These words can be applied to many aspect of life.
We're not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we're going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy Hun cocksuckers by the bushel-****ing-basket.
We are going to twist his balls and kick the living shit 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 shit through a tin horn!
George Patton
Cagemonkey
03-23-12, 19:25
Indeed. I'd love to spend a month in his personal library, with a box of cigars and a case of good Bourbon.That would be interesting. I'm surprised he got the CENTCOM command, being as colorful a leader he is.
SeriousStudent
03-23-12, 20:52
That would be interesting. I'm surprised he got the CENTCOM command, being as colorful a leader he is.
Talent wins out just frequently enough to keep you off-balance. ;)
I was actually fortunate enough to work for a similar officer. He recognized that a lack of skin on my knuckles did not mean I was an illiterate hillbilly. He frequently loaned me tomes from his library as well.
Another quote from General Mattis:
“The problem with being too busy to read is that you learn by experience... ie: the hard way. By reading, you learn through other's experiences, generally a better way to do business, especially in our line of work, where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men. Thanks to my reading, I've never been caught flatfooted by any situation...It doesn't give me all the answers, but it lights what is so often a dark path ahead.”
Spurholder
03-23-12, 21:45
"Molon labe..."
- Leonidas I of Sparta (according to Plutarch, anyway.)
"I have not yet begun to fight!"
And said later in the same fight with HMS Serapis:
"I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike."
- Capt. John Paul Jones
"Don't give up the ship!" - Capt. James Lawrence's dying words in battle with HMS Shannon
"We have met the enemy and they are ours...." - Cdre. Oliver Hazard Perry
"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition." - Lt. Howell Forgy
"Small boys, attack." - Radm. Clifton Sprague's order to the destroyers and destroyer escorts of Taffy 3.
ForTehNguyen
03-24-12, 15:49
from Gen Mattis again:
"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet."
DocHolliday01
03-25-12, 11:46
“Let your plans be dark and as impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.” Sun Tzu - The Art of War
"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft." Theodore Roosevelt
Molon Labe- Leonidas
"come and get it"
Bad ass quote
Moose-Knuckle
03-26-12, 01:49
Molon Labe- Leonidas
"come and get it"
Bad ass quote
Not to pinch a loaf in your punch bowl. . .
But Molon Labe is the reconstruction of the ancient Greek pronunciation μολὼν λαβέ! "Come and take them!" referencing the Spartan's armament at the battle of Thermopylae.
"Come and Get It" is taken from the flag flown at the Battle of Gonzales on 2 October 1835 that was the first military engagement of the Texas War of Independence. The story goes in 1831; Mexican authorities gave the settlers of Gonzales a small cannon to help protect them from frequent Comanche raids. Over the next four years, the political situation in Mexico deteriorated, and in 1835 several states revolted. As the unrest spread, Colonel Domingo de Ugartechea, the commander of all Mexican troops in Texas, felt it unwise to leave the residents of Gonzales a weapon and requested the return of the cannon. Needless to say the Texans did not comply. :cool:
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All in all both quotes possess an incredible back story and have a special place in my heart.
Thank you for this thread Will. This is great
CarlosDJackal
03-26-12, 19:49
Dec. 23, 1944 - "Battle of the Bulge" - An entire U.S. armored division was retreating from the Germans in the Ardennes forest when a sergeant in a tank destroyer spotted an American digging a foxhole. The GI, PFC Martin, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, looked up and asked, "Are you looking for a safe place?" "Yeah" answered the tanker. "Well, buddy," he drawled, "just pull your vehicle behind me...
I'm the 82nd Airborne, and this is as far as the bastards are going."
She is actually very attractive and wears her quote on her arm:)
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