Any favorite military quotes? Here's some of mine:
You have never lived 'til you've almost died. For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the protected will never know.
- unknown
Where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defence, so that ten thousand men descending from the clouds might not, in many places, do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?
- Benjamin Franklin, 1784
The secret of the Paratrooper's success can be summed up in three words; comradeship, esprit de corps & efficiency.
- Major Rudolf Böhmler, German paratrooper in WW2, Cassino.
Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.
- Carl Von Clausewitz
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
- George Orwell
When they say “special operations“, they are not kidding: these people are special. From an operational standpoint, physiological standpoint, they can do things that nobody else can do.
- Dennis Grahn, Senior Research Scientist, Stanford University, in the National Geographic’s TV documentary Fight Masters: Special Forces
Praise be to the LORD my Rock,
who trains my hands for war,
my fingers for battle.
- Psalm 144:1 Bible (NIV)
You have never lived 'til you've almost died. For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the protected will never know.
- unknown
Where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defence, so that ten thousand men descending from the clouds might not, in many places, do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?
- Benjamin Franklin, 1784
The secret of the Paratrooper's success can be summed up in three words; comradeship, esprit de corps & efficiency.
- Major Rudolf Böhmler, German paratrooper in WW2, Cassino.
Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.
- Carl Von Clausewitz
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
- George Orwell
When they say “special operations“, they are not kidding: these people are special. From an operational standpoint, physiological standpoint, they can do things that nobody else can do.
- Dennis Grahn, Senior Research Scientist, Stanford University, in the National Geographic’s TV documentary Fight Masters: Special Forces
Praise be to the LORD my Rock,
who trains my hands for war,
my fingers for battle.
- Psalm 144:1 Bible (NIV)
