War Quotes/Sayings

[cobra@pulse 0]

Hello guys.

Right so I need some help, at the moment I am trying to get together lots of quotations/sayings that are quite emotional and meaningful and I am interested in what you people out there can think of. Please post to tell me.

At the moment I have:

-Everyone of you who fights here today will always be remembered in history. Everyone of you who sheads thier blood with mine shall be my brother. We merry men, we band of brothers. : Henry fifth (slightly changed cause i couldn't remember it)

-The other day my grandson asked me if I was a hero in the war. I said no...but I served in a company full of them...

Any more would eb helpful

[Longinius 1]

Cobra, good quote there.

"And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by from this day until the ending of the world but we in it shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother. Be he ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition, and gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves acursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whilst any speaks, that fought with us upon St. Crispin's day!"

King Henry V

[Colossus 2]

How about this one "War changes men. Men changes war"

not sure if I got it totaly right.

[fallchild 0]

Tim Collins' Speech

It's a bit long but it's got some very good stuff there.

[Gadger 0]

The Greeks have not fought like hero's, hero's fight like the Greeks.

Winston Churchill

Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.

Caligula

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,

that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

[ralphwiggum 6]

just try to find all the death cam quotes from OFP's file.

[Colossus 2]

The Greeks have not fought like hero's, hero's fight like the Greeks.

Winston Churchill

Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.

Caligula

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,

that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

You have take some of this from Rome: Total War, right?  

[iNeo 0]

The Dane, the Jute, the German and the devil - everyone dreads the parish of Dalarna.

- Hemming Gadh (of Sweden), early 1500's

I translated it from Swedish.

Jute : person from Jutland, some land of Denmark and Germany

Dalarna : Dalecarlia County of Sweden

[Leveler 0]

The essence of all war quotes: Molon Lave (come and get them) spartan answer to the persian request to surrender their weapons.

And my all time favourite: A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic (from Stalin)

[Gadger 0]

The Greeks have not fought like hero's, hero's fight like the Greeks.

Winston Churchill

Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.

Caligula

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,

that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

You have take some of this from Rome: Total War, right?  

Nope, first one is a well known Churchill WW2 quote, The Caligula quote is from the book I, Caligula and the Thermpoylae reference is because I'm currently reading Gates of Fire. AFAIK none of these are featured in RTW.  

Edit: wups my bad, just checked the stringtable text files and the Caligula quote is in there.

[-=BT=- Matty R 0]

Quote[/b] ]The only hope you have is to accept the fact that your already dead, the sooner you accept that , the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier supose to function without mercy, without compassion. without remorse. All war depends on it..

Quote[/b] ]"You will be surounded", "It's allright we are paratroopers, we are supost to be surounded"

this is a song :P

Quote[/b] ]The night was filled with dark and cold,

When Sergeant Talbot the story is told,

Pulled out his poncho and headed out,

To check the lines dressed like a Krout,

Upon a trooper our hero came,

Fast asleep he called his name,

Smith! O Smith! get up it's time

To take your turn on the line,

And Private Smith so very weary

Craked upon a eyelid red and bleary,

grabbed his rifle he did not tarry,

Hearing Floyd but seing Jerry,

DONT cried Tab, It's me and yet

Smith charged to sweet, with his bayonet

He lunged and thrust both hight and low,

And skewered the boy from Kokomo

And as they carried him away

Our punctured hero was heard to say,

When in this war you venture out,

Best never do it dressed as a Krout!

-Night Of the Bayonet

[-=BT=- Matty R 0]

Quote[/b] ]"Remember boys, flies spread disease, so keep yours closed."

Quote[/b] ]So long as there are men there will be wars

Quote[/b] ]You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

hehe

Quote[/b] ]WAR! - Huuuh - What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.

Quote[/b] ]The purpose of all war is ultimately peace.

Quote[/b] ]War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Quote[/b] ]Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

Quote[/b] ]Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him.

Quote[/b] ]A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Quote[/b] ]A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.

Quote[/b] ]What a cruel thing is war:  to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

[Colossus 2]

Quote[/b] ]"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. The 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."

~ Dwight David Eisenhower

Quote[/b] ]"If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army."

~ Frederick the Great

Quote[/b] ]"If you want peace, prepare for war"

~ An ancient Roman expression

Quote[/b] ]"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

~ Napoleon Bonaparte

No wonder he lost his war.

Quote[/b] ]"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

~ Plato

Quote[/b] ]"Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country."

~ Bertrand Russell

Quote[/b] ]"When the rich make war, it's the poor that die."

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Quote[/b] ]"So long as there are men there will be wars"

~ Albert Einstein

Quote[/b] ]"There can only be peace when they will start to love their children more then they hate us."

~ Golda Meir

Quote[/b] ]"There is no war crimes, war is a crime."

~ D.R.I.

Hear hear!

Quote[/b] ]"This war, like the next war, is a war to end war.

~ David Lloyd George

Quote[/b] ]"War does not decide who is right, war decides who is left."

~ Bertrand Russell

What the...

Quote[/b] ]"War in our time has become an anachronism. Whatever the case in the past, war in the future can serve no useful purpose. A war which became general, as any limited action might, would only result in the virtual destruction of mankind."

~ Dwight David Eisenhower

Quote[/b] ]"War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals."

~ Charles Evans Hughes

Quote[/b] ]"We have seen the enemy and they are us."¨

~ Walt Kelly

Quote[/b] ]"You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way."

~ Will Rogers

Quote[/b] ]"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."

~ Ambrose Bierce

Hehe

Quote[/b] ]"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

~ Albert Einstein

My favorite quote.

What can't you find on Wikiquote?

EDIT: Added 1 quote

[Harnu 0]

Not so much war as just general motivational quotes, but here are three I like:

Semper Fidelis (Always faithful)

Fortes fortuna juvat (Forture favors the brave)

Rus Potissimum (Country above all)

[Ares1978 0]

Only Finland - superb, nay, sublime - in the jaws of peril - Finland shows what free men can do. - Winston Churchill, broadcast speech (1940).

Something I saw on a poster in the military:

I am Artillery

My color is Red

Crossed cannons my insignia

Battlefield my bed

My mission is simple

You know it well:

Put steel on target

Make a replica of Hell

[Jyka 0]

"We gained 22,000 miles of new territory. Just enough to bury our dead".

- Russian general after Winter War

[Placebo 28]

Sir Winston Churchill.

June 4, 1940

Quote[/b] ]"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!"

August 20, 1940

Quote[/b] ]Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

And about a thousand others

Edit: The man himself, "this was their finest hour" (sound file, 2.5Mb, needs QuickTime) "We shall fight on the beaches."

Edit: Last one

Hitler is a monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and plunder.

Not bad for a Tory

[cobra@pulse 0]

These are really good, cheers guys, keep em coming ofcourse.  

-"War is not nice" - forgot who said that, it is on OFP, Nancy Reagan.

[iNeo 0]

"The Swedes are well built, powerful, supple, capable of enduring the hardest work, starvation and trouble. They are born warriors, full of pride..."

- Francois Voltaire, 1731

[der bastler 0]

Opening pandora's box...

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"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

[EiZei 0]

Puskaryssä... anteeksi... pensasneuvostoliittolainen. (Honkajoki)

Myö ei olla tääl kuolemas, vaan tappamas. (Rokka)

Mis sie tarviit oikee hyvää miestä, täs siul on sellanen. (Rokka)

Tuo perkele se tuolla närreen takana, sie hitto tekiit miul uuen jakkauksen, mut siit hyväs mie sahhaan siult puol piätä pois. (Rokka)

Ei niitä hanki pitele. Nahkurin orsilla tavataan.

Sorry, not possible to translate.

Quote[/b] ]

"The Swedes are well built, powerful, supple, capable of enduring the hardest work, starvation and trouble. They are born warriors, full of pride..."

- Francois Voltaire, 1731

Somehow im not surprised to see that quote has been made before 1800..

[Colossus 2]

Quote[/b] ]War is hell

And nobody got that quote before now?!

[FW200 0]

Opening pandora's box...

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"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

Wasn't it Goebbels or Göring which said that? I can remember seeing that from somewhere..

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Another nice one:

Albert Einstein:

Quote[/b] ]"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

[ran 0]

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys.

Look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even into death.

- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

[Madus_Maximus 0]

"Si Vic pacem, para bellum" - Vegetius, Roman General

Someone said it already in English. That's the latin version.

"To live in peace, prepare for war"

"Come home with this shield or upon it" - Spartan woman equiping her son for war. (Rome is great for quotes)