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re: Bad arse historical quotes
Posted on 3/13/18 at 11:50 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Posted on 3/13/18 at 11:50 am to TigerFanInSouthland
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.”
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Posted on 3/13/18 at 11:52 am to deltaland
If you're not a liberal at 20, it's because you don't have heart.
If you're not a conservative at 40, it's because you don't have brains.
Winston C.
Posted on 3/13/18 at 12:01 pm to Pdubntrub
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I am the one who knocks. I am...the danger
-Werner Heisenberg
Posted on 3/13/18 at 12:02 pm to Pdubntrub
"It's good to be the King!"
Posted on 3/13/18 at 12:04 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
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‘It’s quite fun to shoot them, you know. It’s a hell of a hoot. It’s fun to shoot some people.’
It sounds like Mattis is writing Dr. Suess.
Posted on 3/13/18 at 12:06 pm to geauxtigers6492
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It sounds like Mattis is writing Dr. Suess.
He has to speak at a level that Marines can understand.
Posted on 3/13/18 at 12:07 pm to Pdubntrub
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The Spartan’s sent back a single word in reply: “if”.
That is amazing that they all spoke English instead of Greek back then.
Posted on 3/13/18 at 12:09 pm to Pdubntrub
Anthony McAuliffe (2 July 1898 – 11 August 1975) was the United States Army general who was the acting division commander of the 101st Airborne Division troops defending Bastogne, Belgium, during World War II's Battle of the Bulge, famous for his single-word reply of "Nuts!" in response to a German surrender ultimatum.
Posted on 3/13/18 at 12:12 pm to IonaTiger
Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Let us go inland and be killed.
Gen. Norman Cota, Omaha Beach, D-Day
Gen. Norman Cota, Omaha Beach, D-Day
Posted on 3/13/18 at 12:12 pm to IonaTiger
“I hear a lot of crap about what a glorious thing it is to die for your country. It isn’t glorious—it’s stupid! You don’t go into battle to die for your country. You go into battle to make the other bastard die for his country.”
—Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., speaking to troops in 1941
—Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., speaking to troops in 1941
Posted on 3/13/18 at 12:15 pm to UncleLester
Posted on 3/13/18 at 12:16 pm to Pdubntrub
General Custer. Where did all those fricking Indians come from?
Posted on 3/13/18 at 12:17 pm to Pdubntrub
quote:— Winston Churchill
We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender!
Posted on 3/13/18 at 12:20 pm to Pdubntrub
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Don’t believe everything you read on the internet
-Lincoln
Posted on 3/13/18 at 12:23 pm to Perrydawg
This one is awesome 
Posted on 3/13/18 at 12:30 pm to 777Tiger
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"It's good to be the King!"
Gotta love Mel Brooks
Posted on 3/13/18 at 12:35 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
On June 2, 1918, a division of Marines was sent to support the French army at the Battle of Belleau Wood. Lloyd Williams was serving as a company commander of 51st Company, 2d Battalion, 5th Marines. As the Marines arrived, they found French troops retreating. When advised to withdraw by a French colonel at the defensive line just north of the village of Lucy-le-Bocage, Williams bluntly replied: "Retreat Hell! we just got here!"
-Dan Daly
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Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?
-Dan Daly
This post was edited on 3/13/18 at 12:38 pm
Posted on 3/13/18 at 12:41 pm to weagle99
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Fellow citizens and compatriots; I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna. I have sustained a continual Bombardment and cannonade for 24 hours and have not lost a man. The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken. I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism and everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid, with all dispatch. The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily and will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor and that of his country. VICTORY or DEATH. William Barret Travis Lt. Col. Comdt. Alamo
Travis defied a direct order from Sam Houston to retreat from the Alamo in the face of an overwhelming Mexican force. Moreover, he chose to defend the Alamo when there was a more suitable position, the Presidio, in San Antonio itself. Travis made himself a legend and got a bunch of stuff named after him, at the cost of losing his life and almost his entire command. Had he survived, he would have been courtmartialed for his amateurishness and insubordination.
Posted on 3/13/18 at 12:42 pm to Jim Rockford
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Travis defied a direct order from Sam Houston to retreat from the Alamo in the face of an overwhelming Mexican force. Moreover, he chose to defend the Alamo when there was a more suitable position, the Presidio, in San Antonio itself. Travis made himself a legend and got a bunch of stuff named after him, at the cost of losing his life and almost his entire command. Had he survived, he would have been courtmartialed for his amateurishness and insubordination.
if there had been a back door at the Alamo there wouldn't be a Texas
Posted on 3/13/18 at 12:43 pm to Jim Rockford
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. TR
It takes more than a bullet to stop a bull moose. TR
It takes more than a bullet to stop a bull moose. TR
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