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07 Apr 04, 15:20
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Real Name: wayne cassell
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Reference: Favorite Military Quotes
"Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians (at Thermopylae), yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes. It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persian archers were so numerous that, when they fired their volleys, the mass of arrows blocked out the sun. Dienkes, however, quite undaunted by this prospect, remarked with a laugh,
"Good. Then we'll have our battle in the shade."
"Come and get them."
Spartan King Leonidas' reply to the Persian Leader Xeres demand that the Spartans lay down their arms (at Thermopylae)
"Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.
monument at Thermopylae pass
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16 Nov 07, 22:58
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Famous Military quotes
Anybody know iffn we got a thread on that?
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16 Nov 07, 23:14
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Centrix Vigilis
Anybody know iffn we got a thread on that?
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Looks like we do now. :)
Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum
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16 Nov 07, 23:23
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yupper well thats a good one no doubt...but my Latin was given absolution years ago so lets have a translate there big fella.
BTW quotes might be from anybody from any era........i like the one that was attributed to Bill Mauldin during the Italian campaign vic. Volturna river crossings Nov 43.
When queried about the dangers of minefields he was reported to have said:
" an old man thinks of his eyes and a young man grabs for his balls"
you gotta love it.
best
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"Here we bloody well are, and here we bloody well stay!" - Brigadier "Bloody" George Vasey, CO 19 Bde, Brallos Pass, Thermopylae Line, Greece 23 April 1941.
and ofc,
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - Wilfred Owen (with apologies to Horace)
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- Russell Robertson, ruining whatever credibility my football team once had.
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17 Nov 07, 13:43
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Centrix Vigilis
yupper well thats a good one no doubt...but my Latin was given absolution years ago so lets have a translate there big fella.
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Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum
"Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
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17 Nov 07, 13:59
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" What the hell is THAT!!!"-Just about everybody at one point or another. 
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Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.
--Napoleon Bonaparte--
Major, thank General Longstreet for his kind words, but say, by God Almighty, he neednt doubt me. We will stay here, by Jesus Christ, if we must all go to hell together.
-Col. John R. Cooke,27th NC to Major Gilbert Moxley Sorrell, Longstreet's equivalent of Walter Taylor, after relaying Longstreet's fear of them being pushed back from an imminent Union charge at Antietam against the already battered units that Cooke was commanding (27th NC and 3d Arkansas).. The attack never came.
Out of 325 present for duty the 27th NC lost 31 killed and 168 wounded, a casualty rate of over 61%
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17 Nov 07, 10:34
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Nuts!
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18 Nov 07, 12:03
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ACG Forums - Legatus Janitorus
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 Famous Military quotes
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Indeed, we do...
Threads Merged...
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17 Nov 07, 10:41
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"you ever been in a minefield" Norman Schwarzkopf questioning a reporter during GWI press confrence
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"Ask not what your country can do for you"
NO one wins a war!!!! They just lose less.
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“Give me an army of West Point graduates, and I’ll win a battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies, and I’ll win a war.” - General George S. Patton
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"Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less."
General Robert E. Lee
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"Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today. Turn two-points to port" - Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty
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The safest place in Korea was behind a platoon of Marines. Lord how they could fight! - MGEN Frank Lowe, U.S. Army.
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"you and who's army?
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Life is change. My life changed.
I didn't choose the change, it just happened.
Life is like that.
But I still get to make models :)
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