Famous quotes by Soldiers

"The throttles could only move very, very slowly, always watching the temperature, always watching. And even in throttling back, you could bust it, even being very careful"

Adolf Galland, Soldier

"I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production"

Adolf Galland, Soldier

"We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few"

Adolf Galland, Soldier

"This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology, like the jet brought about"

Adolf Galland, Soldier

"Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia"

Adolf Galland, Soldier

"All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct"

Robert Ley, Soldier

"It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal"

J. F. C. Fuller, Soldier

"While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with"

William Odom, Soldier

"We've already seen proliferation. We started it with Britain, then France. Then we benignly let the Israelis do it. The Pakistanis and the Indians have recently done it. The Chinese have nuclear weapons"

William Odom, Soldier

"To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case strikes me as most unrealistic"

William Odom, Soldier

"Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously"

William Odom, Soldier

"In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian support, we were risking losing our alliance in Europe in exchange for Iraq, and that is a very undesirable exchange"

William Odom, Soldier

"Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free"

Anthony Wayne, Soldier

"National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented, and the second a king, generally sane"

J. F. C. Fuller, Soldier

"Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?"

James Longstreet, Soldier

"That man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war"

James Longstreet, Soldier

"I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy"

James Longstreet, Soldier

"General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle"

James Longstreet, Soldier

"Before my troops reached the little city, and before the people of Fredericksburg knew that any part of the Confederate army was near, there was great excitement over the demand for surrender"

James Longstreet, Soldier

"So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral, and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable"

Douglas Haig, Soldier

"Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender"

Douglas Haig, Soldier

"Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them"

James Longstreet, Soldier

"In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg, it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours, from which we had driven them back"

James Longstreet, Soldier

"Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost"

Douglas Haig, Soldier

"The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God"

John W. Foster, Soldier

"Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!"

Robert Ley, Soldier

"What is good for Germany is right, and everything that harms Germany is wrong"

Robert Ley, Soldier

"Germany has been born anew"

Robert Ley, Soldier

"Upon the whole, it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance"

Anthony Wayne, Soldier

"I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops, almost barefoot"

Anthony Wayne, Soldier

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