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"drop and give me 50!" - any drill sergent

     "Don't ask, don't tell." -- The U.S. Army.

alla jacta est(sp?)
-the die is cast, said by caeser after crossing the rubicon
...we'll go through the siegfried line like shit through a goose!
general patton

-Napoleon

-Sun Tzu

Also the ones in my profile right below this post I have a lot more I just don't have the time to post them right now.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.? This world in arms is not spending money alone.? It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.? This is not a way of life at all in any true sense.? Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.?

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

"You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all terrors. Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival."
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill

Nice quotes tasty and Cutter. I'm gonna save those woohoo.

this may spoil all the fun but check it out...
http://www.military-quotes.com/quotes.htm

How can you people have quotes on here without any classic Patton?

"May God have mercy on my enemies, because I won't" George S. Patton

"Just pretend the bullets arent there"  -General Ferdinand Foche, addressing some green troops prior to them being sent to the front lines in WWI

My signature.


P.S. *DAMN Snake asked me to quote him quoting Churchill right before he went off to fight. I havn't changed it since.

"Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonor. They (France) chose dishonor."
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill

"The Americans will always do the right thing... After they've exhausted all the alternatives."
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill

"Those who give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary saftey deserve neither liberty nor saftey." -Frankilin Delano Roosevelt

"I have seen war. I hate war." -Frankilin Delano Roosevelt

"The only way to win world War III is to prevent it." -Dwight David Eisenhower

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed." -Dwight David Eisenhower

"Death comes to everyone, but it varies in significance. To die for the reactionary is as light as a feather. But to die for the revolution is as heavier than Mount Tai." -Mao

@Spyke.aHa

is is spelled:

alia acta est - and means the "cube is fallen" = direct translation.

Here are some quotes from my mother country (if you dont know what that country is than you are a "petuh").

"If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly  as it were not there."
Marshall Georgi Zhukov

""If your bayonet breaks, strike with the stock. If the stock gives way, hit him with your fists. If your fists are hurt, bite him with your teeth"
 - General Mikhail I. Dragomirov, "Notes for soldiers" 1890.
 
"In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother"
 - Joseph Stalin

"He who laughs last is the one who shot first..."

General Lebed

"You are a motherfucker, you and you and maybe you.

- my father coming out of a Kabul bar drunker than Nichole Smith

"You must learn the rule properly so you can break them appropriately"

"Achamala malade chara deguao tschi america massakro"

-Bin Laden

lmao

Another Marine quote:

"Marines don't die, they just go to hell and regroup"

-Unknown Most likely someone who fought against the Marines.

I'll add a few of my favorites to this one.

"Retreat Hell, we just got here"
-Marine Captain upon hearing a French Officer telling him to retreat in WW1.

"Good, they have us surrunded.  The Bastards won't get away this time"
-Col. Louis B. (Chesty) Puller at the Chosin Resevoir

"We're not retreating.  We are just attacking in a diferent direction"
-Gen. Smith also at the Chosin Resevoir after being surrounded by 8 Chinese    
                   Divisions

"The raising of that flag means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years"
-Sec. Nav. Forrestall after the flag raising on Mount Surabachi

"Nobody ever won a war by dying for their country.  You win the war by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country"
-Gen. George S. Patton

"Nuts"
-Commander of the entrapped 82nd airborne at Bastogne replying to the  
                    German surrender demands

angels. You are wrong.

Alea iacta est

Alea = feminem noun for cube/dice

Iacta = iacere = to throw

est = it/she/he is

ALEA IACTA EST.

War is hell
-William Techuseh Sherman

and of course the classic:

"We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."

George Orwell




   

"Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"

Translation: "one who wants peace should prepare for war"

-Flavius Vegetius

"Tonight, you pukes will sleep with your rifles.
You will give your rifle a girl's name, because this is the only
pussy you people are going to get. Your days of finger-banging ol'
Mary Jane Rottencrotch through her pretty pink panties are over!
You're married to this piece. This weapon of iron and wood. And you
will be faithful!"

-Gunnery Sgt Hartman

"Hard pressed on my right.  My center is yielding.  Impossible to maneuver.  Situation excellent.  I am attacking."

-Marshal of France Ferdinand Foch, Allied Supreme Commander, WWI
Spoken at the Battle of the Marne, September, 1914



(now who says I never say anything good about the French military?!)

"Don't run.  You'll only die trying."

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"We have destroyed 2 tanks, fighter planes, 2 helicopters and their shovels - We have driven them back."
-Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf,  Iraqi Information Minister

oh man, i miss that guy already, mb in a few years when things settle down a little he'll come over here and work with john stewart or somebody.

I can't remember, did they ever catch him?  And if so they will have to convict him of lying to the media.....lol

Nah they didn't catch him, I don't think anyone wants to, he's just too cool for school.

"We have not yet begun to fight"
-Some Captain during the American Revolution

"Fire at Will" is that one?

=-)

You just won't let your topics die Ghost Sniper.

This one is a good topic that can always be added to and should never be left to die.  Let's face it, out of all the threads I've started, this one is by far the least objectionable for most people.

"Personally, I am of the opinion that older men of experience, who have smelled powder and have been wounded, are of more value than mere youthful exuberance, which has not yet been disciplined. However, I seem to be in the minority in this belief."

-Gen George S. Patton, Jr.

Well....when GS is quoting moral philosophers I get scared....although I had you figured out for a utilitarian allready, mate  ;)

Here is a quote from my first day in the army.

"up that hill is the base store, where you can buy your porn, chew tobacco and other less important items"

My platoon leader actually said that.

OMG...I think my Drill Sgt in Basic Training said that exact same thing.

Were/Are you in the Norwegian Army, Brutha?

Yes, he was, and he is currently in the reserves

Norwegian men get drafted around the tender age of 19, so that would be 8 years ago....spent a year in Finmark at Garnisonen I Porsanger....after my period as a recruit I ended up behind a desk because of a skin decease...which made it impossible for me to be in the field....yup it is true...and not a lame excuse to get out of there. I volunteered for the test platoon of what would later become the "jaeger" batallion. I assume that you GS already know what Jaegers do. Long story short...I am now in the reserves...and get ready for this peeps....Yup the army has decided that if I have to go on drills, or in case of a war, I will be equiped with a 50 cal machinegun placed on top of a personell carrier, and I will be serving coffee to my platoon leader, being his assistant...hardly know what the 50 cal looks like :-X but thats the norwegian army for you ;)

"Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts"
"A good plan executed today is better than a perfect plan executed at  some indefinite point in the future."
- General George Patton Jr

That second one I would direct at certain members of this community. [/shameless plug]

I should wait my turn, but these are just too good.

"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. "
- 1.Lt. Clifton B. Cates
USMC. In Belleau Wood, 19 July 1918


"Have you not got your bayonets?"
- Sir George Cathcart, when word came that his division was low on ammunition.

"How fortunate for leaders that men do not think."
- Adolf Hitler


"The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps,"

"I am not talking about the American people and the British people,
I am talking about those mercenaries. ... They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children."

- The Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf

lmao

"If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."[/color][/size]

-Thomas Paine (1737-1809)[/b]

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was and never will be."
- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US president, founding father, Commander and Chief

Consider that first and then,

"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."
- Patrick Henry, statesman

"It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
 
-Patrick Henry
March 23,1775

Hey Macuser,

Nice timing with that quote.  I'm not sure how you're interpreting it, so I feel the need to respond.  In today's affairs the context applies to us much differently.  Take my icon for example, Martin Luther King died for liberty, without physically fighting for it.  For others to assume that it's necessary to physically attack in order to obtain liberty is falsely interpreting the quote.  

The context of that message coupled with physically going to battle currently applies less to our nation but in more ways to nations we are in conflict with, unfortunately.  Patrick Henry most likely would be giving a completely different message today.  

I think, to be perfectly accurate Ssick, Patrick Henry would have been saying the same thing, but instead as an Iraqi, and he would have meant it as a call to arms against Saddam. We could apply it the world over, but one thing has obviously changed. Some people are not willing to fight for liberty at the price of death, because they have not tasted liberty enough to understand it. Patrick Henry had.

What does this mean? To Mr. Bush it means taking liberty to them. To his opponents, it means waiting for them to gain the clairvoyance enough to know why they should fight for liberty, such that they fight for themselves.

Neither viewpoint is right. I hope that is obvious. You can't hand liberty to someone when they don't know what to do with it. Nor can you expect them to want it or fight for it if they do not know what it is. It is time for the world to realise that not everyone is ready and able to govern himself, much less can the average American. The solution is what then? I don't think I will answer that just now, though part of me desires it.

To apply the quote to a civil rights struggle is interesting indeed... the quote clearly shows its age in this respect. Patrick Henry knew that the English Crown would never fight a war to exterminate all of the colonial rebels. Add to that, the anti-revolutionaries were not a majority. Today however, certain people groups would indeed exterminate others, and are quite the majority without an ocean in between them and their enemy. I think these changes entirely invalidate the quote, sad to say.

To answer what Patrick Henry would say today requires a different angle. One could start with "a house divided against itself cannot stand." That quote alone tears down Iraqi, Palestinian, and other modern "freedom fighters'" hopes for victory.

Okay, back on topic here....this is a place for Quotes, not to examine the ones left (no offense, but I think my Brother knew what Patrick Henry was saying in that quote).

Here is a new one:

"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
 
-General of the Army Douglas MacArthur

Is there life before war in your world GS?  

Sure there was.  But once you have tasted combat, your life is changed forever.  There is no going back to the completely easy-going days before you saw your best friend laying beside you in pieces.

Here's another quote to keep this thing going:

"I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom."

-Abraham Lincoln
November 1864[/b]

"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again."

-President Ronald Reagan

Out of interest how are you defining "military" quotes... seems to be a whole mix of allsorts including politicians...

Anything that has anything at all to do with the military.  It doesn't have to be a direct quote from someone in the military (Like a Patton or MacArthur quote).  It just has to have something to do with the military (like my brother's quote from Ronald Reagan about defending freedom).

So, here's a new one:

"As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational art, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that he's a great military man-I want you to know that."

-General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, 1991[/b]

"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have."

-President Ronald Reagan

"We make war that we may live in peace."[/size]

-Aristotle[/b]

"War is for the people who can't think different"

- June 16, 2004 | ! | Dutchman

Oh...err....I forgot.....you may also skip the word "different"

Well, until your writings are translated into every language on earth and studied by scholars, I'm gonna stick with Aristotle.  ;)

Here's one about air combat:

"Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart."

-Baron Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron)

Do not live in shame as a prisoner. Die, and leave no ignominious crime behind you.-General Tojo

March separated, stike united !
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by von Clausewitz


War is the continuation of policy with other means.
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by Moltke

"People have killed only when they could not achieve their aim in other ways ... there is a broadened strategy, with intellectual weapons ... why should I demoralize the enemy by military means if I can do so better and more cheaply in other ways?"




This One Might Surprise You....









-Adolf Hitler

"They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29 to 1. They can't get away from us now!"

-Col Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC, at the Chosin Reservoir

When the Marines were cut off behind enemy lines and the Army had written the 1st Marine Division off as being lost because they were surrounded by 22 enemy divisions. The Marines made it out inflicting the highest casualty ratio on an enemy in history and destroying 7 entire enemy divisions in the process. That's around 400,000 enemy soldiers versus about 12,000 Marines.

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."

-French Marshal Ferdinand Foch [Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre] (circa 1911)

He was Supreme Commander of Allied forces, 1918

another one from Bush is :

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."?Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004

lol i love that one too bobby. He is so right though, and he's doign such a good job ;)

Did he really say that? What an idiot. Still, what WOULD be a good way to word that? I can't think of one.

Some quotes ive found in researching WWI.  If you decide to not read them all, i strongly encourage you to read at least the last one.

My company had to take a trench. We had been told it was at seventymeters: it was more than two hundred. It was necessary to crawl and keep still: all the world was up and screaming. My half platoon held the left. I had six men around when I reached the German wire, between eight and nine o'clock in the evening.

I stepped over their bodies, the next morning, about four o'clock.

I found the first pantless, as if claws had scratched his trousers off. His buttocks exposed, cut back and forth as though by a butcher's knife. The second hung whole on a bush, his head balancing on the end of the highest branch, like the head of a dead sparrow. The others were rolled into a porridge of mud and blood. I didn't look at them. I returned on all fours, my blanket around my neck and my packs under my chest. When i caught sight of the stones of our trenches, I straightened up and cried out. I was pulled in by the legs and was given cold coffee and rum to drink. The slopes were covered in haze.
What have we done? We have gone ahead under the shrapnel, lost, decimated, from the very first hundred meters. All officers down.

Sergent Paul Crazin, 1915, assault on the heights between Saint-Mihiel and Apremount.

In tiny little attacks, partial attacks, attacks made solely for the communiqu?s, three or four hundred thousand men were lost...Hartmannswillerkopf cost us, without a meter of trench being taken, fifteen thousand men.

Abel Ferry, 1915

I go like an animal driven to the abbatoir...we meet the wounded, all BCA...in an uninterrupted procession, with haggard faces.
"Ah! You go down there too," they say. "A beautiful slaughter-house!"
Such are the encouragements that follow us in our descent, while already some shells come to flay the woods...
Sergeant Bernardin, 1915, Hartmannswillerkopf

Two steps farther, a wounded man, nearly naked to his waist, sits in the frozen rain, "I am cold!" he moans through chattering teeth...As we go up, cadavers make themselves more numerous. On a section of barbed wire that has been cut by hand, I count a cluster of ten dead. While approaching the top, two captains of the 14th BCA, recognizeable by their beautiful black tunics trimmed in gold...

Everywhere are the dead, and even some injured, most of the cadavers have been covered with canvas until the stretcher bearers have time to collect and bury them. One of these sad packets lies on the parapet in front of where we take up our position. However here the canvas quivers and emits a plaintive cry.
"But he isnt dead!" I say to a soldier who watches from across the gap.
"Not yet. But the Major said it was useless to evacuate him, he was f---. He's been like that for forty-eight hours..."

French Soldier, Sixty-Sixth Alpine Division (Elite)1915 Hartmannswillerkopf.

We set to work to bury poeple. We pushed them into the sides of the trenches but bits of them kept getting uncovered and sticking out, like people in a badly made bed. Hands were the worst; they would escape from the sand, pointing, begging - even waving! There was one which we all shook when we passed, saying, "Good morning," in a posh voice. Everybody did it. The bottom of the trench was springy like a mattress because of all the bodies underneath...

Leonard Thompson - quoted in Ronald Blythe, Akenfield

Jesus Christ that was powerfull stuff wolf.

How can you read that poem and still support war?

Now what in God's name makes you think I SUPPORT war?  Actually, support is probably not the word you meant to use.  I do support war when necessary.  I do not, however, enjoy war.  War is simply a necessary evil when diplomacy can not take care of things.  I am not FOR war.  War is a terrible thing that I know all to well from personal experiance.  Seeing my buddy laying in PIECES before my very eyes has changed my life forever.  I would never wish anyone into that situation.  But that being said, sometimes some things are worth fighting for, and some things are worth dying for.  My friend who is now dead knew that, and was proud to serve in our military, and knew the concequinces of his service.  War is the last thing anyone WANTS.  But sometimes it is the only thing that will keep us free.

"From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots."

-Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States

How about this military poem...

Collateral Damage
Sameness
Eternal battle for equality
At what cost

On the field
Thousands of soldiers
Lie beside me

Emotion, my friend
Lost next to me moans
Quickly forgotten

Faith, a leader
Where is he now
Nowhere to be seen

Love, a shame
Never stood a chance
Crying for his father

Hate, Greed, and Intolerance
Charging on with heads high
Heroes of the war

I haven't read through this thread so some of these may be repeats

"The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service."-Albert Einstein

"Older men declare war. But it's the youth who must fight and die!" -Herbert Hoover

"Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent." -Issac Asimov

"Either war is obsolte or men are." -R.. Buckminster Fuller (whoever the hell that is)

"We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk." -Eleanor Roosevelt

     Buckminster Fuller is best known as the inventor of the geodesic dome, but he was a genius in many fields (dare I say it, a Renaissance man?), in 1959, he predicted that technology would provide the ability to end poverty and hunger in the world by 2000. His prediction came true.

     http://www.bfi.org/introduction_to_bmf.htm

Ah, I see...it is a shame though, that political will hasn't come...heaven forbid the rich have to drive a Honda instead of a Mercedes (yes, I know it is a bit more complex than that.)

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." - Sir Winston Churchill

"Never in the face of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few." - Winston Churchill

last WC one...

"We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old." - Winston Churchill (after the fall of France)

"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all." - George Washington

"Veni, Vedi, Vici". (I came, I saw, I conquered) - Julius Caesar

"Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats." - Josephus Daniels

"Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde

"Now I recall the Recon Marines ragged, filthy cammie shirted young men in green paint who move silent like the fog with deadly purpose in their eyes. Swift, Silent, Deadly. I smile." - GYSGT Correll, USMC, Retired Recon Marine

Incest

"This was a great war until you guys showed up."[/size][/b]

-Maj Burns, to Trapper John & Hawkeye Pierce, on M.A.S.H.[/b]

Did someone get a complete series dvd box of M.a.s.h. for Christmas?

I haven't bought the complete series box, but I've got all 7 seasons that have been released so far ( just got the 7th for christmas ).

w00t!  Me too!  But you guys are getting off subject.....WAR QUOTES HERE!!![/size]

"Marriage is the only war where you sleep with the enemy."[/size][/b]
 
-Gary Busey[/b]

"We will kill them all"  The Iraqi information minister as US forces entered Baghdad. 2003

Dec 26th, 2004 - Well perhaps not all but the Iraqi resistance has killed or maimed more than 16,000 US Soldiers, all just to put Saddam in a comfortable jail cell where he has gained weight.

From my time as Panzergrenadier(My personal report is still here online for the guys and gals who missed it (http://www.damnr6.com/tet/fullnews.cgi?newsid1044626699,41936,)):


"Auf Schwanzlänge aufrücken"

"Krieg ist die einzige Lösung" - Ltn Eppacher

"Taaaagggggwacheeeeee"

"Gasalarm!"

You are free to translate them yourself.

Bye,

Mauti

LOL! da musstest du bestimmt nicht sehr nah aufrücken, oder? ;)

GhostSniper you can't translate everything, you can do it word by word but that would take wouldn't come close to the real meaning. Further some of the used words don't appear in any dictionary ;-)

However the quote from Ltn. Eppacher: "War is the only solution"

Gasalarm = "gas alert". Every day we heard this so often... At all you have 15seconds to put on your gas mask after 2 weeks no one needed longer than 5 seconds to get it out of the bag and over your head.

The rest can't be translated that well.

@ Civic: no comment.

Bye,

Mauti

He also said:


Not a war quote I know but I thought it would be interesting to add that comment because of how much I feel it rings true after the recent election in the United States.

Lets see how long it takes me to get an unfriendly response / death threat. Or maybe the forum has changed.... doubt it.

You rotten bastard! I hate your guts and i hope yo-Oh, wrong forum.  Sorry.

Carry on!

My own little contribution, shamelessly stolen from CoD:

The goal of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other poor bastard die for his.
-Patton

P.S - Welcome back Hazard.  Here to stay or just stopping by?

Patton was a real character. He once was visiting the wounded at a hospital to keep morale and he went by everyone's bed asking them what their injuries were and about themselves. He got to one soldier who claimed to have shell shock. Patton called him a pussy and took out his gun and tried to shoot the man. He almost lost his job for that.

Heres a quote from the Roman General who defeated Hannibal. It's actually an amazing story, don't know how the bastard did it. Overlooked in most respects.



If your into this military history stuff check out the book "Scipio Africanus greater than Napoleon." This guy basically takes a bunch of rejects his political rivals game him and turns them into soldiers that defeat the seasoned veterans that have been kicking the Roman's asses for years.

Lonewolf: I haven't decided just got an email saying the forum was moved and decided to see what was up.

"STFU and RTFU!!!"
General GhostSniper

"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't!"

-General George S. Patton[/size]

"Life, for all it has been, is good. Every encounter, every event worth experiencing.  I believe in my God, my country and my fellow man. I believe in the worth of every individual and that human dignity is worth every sacrifice necessary to maintain it.

I am the soldier of righteousness, I am the warrior of humanity.  I am the goodness of my life.  If I die before my time, if I live beyond my expectation, let it be said that my life was good and that I was true to myself, my god, my country, my fellow man.

There are no regrets.  No petty hatred, only a contentment.  I have lived, I have contributed, I have loved.   This is the essence of my existence, this is the worth of my life."

-Carl Thomas Poole
Captain, United States Air Force, 1977

(the above words were written by Carl Poole only two weeks before his death, and read aloud by his widow at the memorial service)
 
F-111F 73-0718 Crashed and destroyed 5 October 1977 near Landau Ramstein after flight into terrain during an attempt to get VFR in deteriorating weather.  Exercise Cloudy Chorus sortie. There was no emergency call.  Killed were CAPT Stephen H. Reid and CAPT Carl T. Poole

Hey, can't we sticky this?  It's a nice little thing that can always be added to!   ;D

"I don't know, but I've been told, the parthenon is mighty old"  Sgt Seymor Skinner(aka principal skinner) from a simpsons episode.

Nice to see some Sun Tzu in here, but since I don't have The Art of War at hand (his book), I'll go with some King Henry V:

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
  (The rest of the speech, which I had to find)
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'

Some stuff from Julius Ceaser (maybe not war-ish):
I was not born to die on Brutus' sword.

I am constant as the northern star.

Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war!

Et tu, Brute? - Then fall, Ceaser!

Ceaser, thou art revenged
Even with the sword that killed thee.

Friends, Romans, countrymen,
Lend me your... something, bah.

"no hay guerra que valga la pena, pero sus diversos resultados mejoraran nuestro porvenir", Heard long ago, i really can't reall the author of this.

Aprox in english: "There's no war that worths itself, but its differents outcomes will improve our future".

"Four other pieces of equipment that most senior officers came to regard as among the most vital to our success in Africa and Europe were the bulldozer, the jeep, the 2½-ton truck, and the C-47 airplane. Curiously, none of these is designed for combat."

-General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, reflecting on WWII.[/b]

'Whatever it was, I'm sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be mad. I mean, who would have noticed another madman round here?' Cpt Edmund Blackadder, commenting on their schemes when trying to get out of an assault during WWI that would surely cost them their lives.

(p.s. Blackadder is not a real character)

"Fighting for peace is like fucking for abstinence"
-Vietnam protest slogan

Sis Vis Pacem, Para Bellum

and in contrast:

I went into the Army believing that if  you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if  you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.
--Sir John Frederick Maurice

"Fortes Fortuna Juvat"

Ghostsniper will most likely  know this.

This might be paraphrased but I remember my global teacher saying....

"War is a thing of time and space, space we can recover but time never" (paraphrased horribly and im too drunk and high to look up the real one sorry)

"you slap jaw faggots"!!!  jesse ventura - preditor

mesaboogie

"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations." 

-David Friedman[/b]

More with Napoleon and Germany

"Prussia was hatched from a cannonball"

"Prussia is not a country with an army, but an army with a country."

Both by Napoleon concerning Prussia.

"crush your enemies and hear the lamentation of their women"

conan the barbarian

I know its hard to put food on your family... I know its hard to put gas on your car - hahahaha ::applause::

The first casualty of war is the truth

"You can do everything for other countries but you can't do nothing for your own people. You can go overseas with the military but you can't get them down here."
- Daniel Edwards, Hurricane Katrina survivor in New Orleans.

Not quite a military quote but...

When asked what he thought of western Civilisation, Mohandas Gandhi replied

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway

one more...

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

-Plato[/size]

"You are fucking heinous!"

-Any Drill Instructor