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Thegeneral
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Topic: not so famous quotes Posted: 25-Jul-2005 at 18:36 |
I found yet another page of WWII "funnies"! Some quotes that really made these people look like fools!
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Belisarius
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Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 01:17 |
Would... you be willing to share this page with the rest of us?
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Thegeneral
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Posted: 29-Sep-2005 at 19:00 |
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. - Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984 |
came across this little gem today.
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Tobodai
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Posted: 29-Sep-2005 at 20:15 |
On December 3, 1941, Admiral Charles H. McMorris said, "Pearl Harbor will never be attacked from the air"!!!
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"the people are nothing but a great beast...
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value."
-Alexander Hamilton
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Thegeneral
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Posted: 29-Sep-2005 at 20:21 |
And at the time of Pearl Harbor the top US Navy Command was called CINCUS (pronounced "sink us"),
I hate irony!
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Posted: 29-Sep-2005 at 22:42 |
This one did it for me most:
"You can't even shoot straight" yelled the Romanian
dictator, Ion Antonescu (who hated the Russians with a passion) after
two attempts to execute him by a Russian firing squad. A Soviet
officer had to administer the coup de grace.
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Decebal
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Posted: 30-Sep-2005 at 12:07 |
Originally posted by Constantine XI
This one did it for me most:
"You can't even shoot straight" yelled the Romanian dictator, Ion Antonescu (who hated the Russians with a passion) after two attempts to execute him by a Russian firing squad. A Soviet officer had to administer the coup de grace.
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Actually, I find that kind of admirable. The man knew he was dead anyway.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.- Mohandas Gandhi
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Decebal
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Posted: 30-Sep-2005 at 12:09 |
Apparently when Winston Churchill was giving his famous speech: "We shall fight them on the beaches, we shall fight them in the hills, [...] we shall never surrender", at one point he said to one of his aides in a low voice:
"We shall hit them over the head with beer bottles, because we don't have anything else"!
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.- Mohandas Gandhi
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Emperor Barbarossa
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Posted: 01-Oct-2005 at 22:11 |
"For Christ's sake, men-COME ON! Do you want to live forever?"
Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly, 4 june 1918.
Leading Marines at Belleu Wood.
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vulkan02
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Posted: 03-Oct-2005 at 15:50 |
When confronted with the British quip "You Yanks are overpaid,
oversexed and over here" The American reply was "and you
Limeys are underpaid, undersexed and under Eisenhower".
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The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief - Le Bon
Destroy first and construction will look after itself - Mao
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