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Military Quotes Worthy of Tuesday 6NOV18

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OMG, there are thousands and thousands of notable military quotes...


Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
-- Douglas MacArthur


Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.
-- Heraclitus


From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that 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-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry V


Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson


Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
― Winston S. Churchill


This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
-- Albert Einstein


Aim towards enemy.
-- Instructions found in the instruction manual for a U.S. rocket launcher


Maxim 11: Everything is air-droppable at least once.
-- Howard Tayler, The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries


We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes our creed could be only like the desert grass – a beautiful swift seeming of spring; which, after a day’s heat, fell dusty.
-- T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph


I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valour so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship?
-- William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
 
The cartoons are a slight variation but on topic nonetheless...


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You troops ready to vote now?

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New Command Directive: Remove All Comfortable Chairs
 
"I voted but I'm still undecided."

-- Executive Director Independent Voters of America


"Yes, I voted Republican again but I'm a Libertarian Right individual who is free thinking and sovereign."


"I'm Libertarian Left so I left before I had to vote."
 
"I voted but I'm still undecided."

-- Executive Director Independent Voters of America


"Yes, I voted Republican again but I'm a Libertarian Right individual who is free thinking and sovereign."


"I'm Libertarian Left so I left before I had to vote."

Made up quotes....

Now a real one....

"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."
-Commander Ernest Evans...

As he turned his destroyer to face a fleet of Japanese battleships, cruiser and destroyers. He did not survive the battle.
 
The Putin-Trump-Fanboyz have given new meaning to a central military principle, "The enemy gets a vote." The factor is cited and observed up and down the armed forces chain of command.

The enemy gets a vote refers to the fact the other side will use its own skill, resources, determination to foil you. Think the Germans going around the Maginot Line. Concomitantly the French ignoring the principle meant a failure to duly regard the enemy.


In 2016 the enemy getting a vote meant, well, voters literally.
 
Made up quotes....

Far to many such quotes I see have been taken out of context, or are completely made up.

If I have to pick a single quote, me maxim is still the one I use as a tag line and have since I started in here.

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“We were all of us cogs in a great machine which sometimes rolled forward, nobody knew where, sometimes backwards, nobody knew why.” -Ernst Toller
 
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The Putin-Trump-Fanboyz have given new meaning to a central military principle, "The enemy gets a vote." The factor is cited and observed up and down the armed forces chain of command.

The enemy gets a vote refers to the fact the other side will use its own skill, resources, determination to foil you. Think the Germans going around the Maginot Line. Concomitantly the French ignoring the principle meant a failure to duly regard the enemy.


In 2016 the enemy getting a vote meant, well, voters literally.

Courageously not quoting others the made-u-quotes guy rambles on about military matters he does not comprehend...
 
The election is over so the bulk of retired lifer rightwing nco veterans saw their agents in the House get annihilated.

In the Senate no significant changes occurred except that the opposition controlled House will embarrass the Republican lapdog senators.

Libertarian Rightists everywhere now go on the ropes indefinitely. Their glory dayze of Trump are over. John Stuart Mill btw never served a day in his life, one reason being Mill the libertarian was too busy oppressing India as a civil servant.

Moreover the election completed the discrediting of the troop of veteran rightwingers who want machine guns blazing across the southern border. Meanwhile there's this which is classic from one of my favorite flip 'em off websites duffleblog...


Retiring E-9 shocked to discover private sector has no seats at table for abrasive, stupid people who stay around for long enough

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CAMP COURTNEY, Okinawa — Retiring Headquarters Battalion Sgt. Maj. Joe Perkins expressed outrage on the hallowed literary digest LinkedIn over the lack of high-pay, high-power jobs available, for veterans with no discernible skills aside from interrupting loudly and expressing themselves incoherently, sources confirmed today.

“It’s just plain dumb,” he barked in a raspy voice scarred by decades of smoking Marlboro reds, his overly aggressive high-and-tight sitting atop a beet-red face. “Can you honestly look me in the eye and tell me that these corporations don’t need someone with no real job description to walk around, disrespect their superiors in public, tell stories about lifeing staff sergeants, and have temper tantrums over seemingly small mistakes?”

Perkins seemed to be having trouble articulating his value-added to would-be employers.

“I went to one place, got out of my car, and immediately said, ‘Oh. My. God.’ People were walking all over the parking lot without reflective belts and most of them without buddies. People walking on grass. I stormed right into the CEO’s office and said, ‘Listen sir, you need me here now to tighten this **** up ricky-ticky, roger?’”

John Evans, CEO of service supply company ServiceCorp, found Perkins’ behavior appalling. “I thought maybe a crazy person or a bum with a weird haircut had come into our building,” Evans said. “He was grabbing people’s laptops and throwing them, screaming ‘tie your **** down!’”

https://www.duffelblog.com/2018/10/...tupid-people-who-stay-around-for-long-enough/



So I in my own way remind us that elections have consequences.
 
The election is over so the bulk of retired lifer rightwing nco veterans saw their agents in the House get annihilated.

In the Senate no significant changes occurred except that the opposition controlled House will embarrass the Republican lapdog senators.

Libertarian Rightists everywhere now go on the ropes indefinitely. Their glory dayze of Trump are over. John Stuart Mill btw never served a day in his life, one reason being Mill the libertarian was too busy oppressing India as a civil servant.

Moreover the election completed the discrediting of the troop of veteran rightwingers who want machine guns blazing across the southern border. Meanwhile there's this which is classic from one of my favorite flip 'em off websites duffleblog...


Retiring E-9 shocked to discover private sector has no seats at table for abrasive, stupid people who stay around for long enough

1028991-e1539203494156.jpg


CAMP COURTNEY, Okinawa — Retiring Headquarters Battalion Sgt. Maj. Joe Perkins expressed outrage on the hallowed literary digest LinkedIn over the lack of high-pay, high-power jobs available, for veterans with no discernible skills aside from interrupting loudly and expressing themselves incoherently, sources confirmed today.

“It’s just plain dumb,” he barked in a raspy voice scarred by decades of smoking Marlboro reds, his overly aggressive high-and-tight sitting atop a beet-red face. “Can you honestly look me in the eye and tell me that these corporations don’t need someone with no real job description to walk around, disrespect their superiors in public, tell stories about lifeing staff sergeants, and have temper tantrums over seemingly small mistakes?”

Perkins seemed to be having trouble articulating his value-added to would-be employers.

“I went to one place, got out of my car, and immediately said, ‘Oh. My. God.’ People were walking all over the parking lot without reflective belts and most of them without buddies. People walking on grass. I stormed right into the CEO’s office and said, ‘Listen sir, you need me here now to tighten this **** up ricky-ticky, roger?’”

John Evans, CEO of service supply company ServiceCorp, found Perkins’ behavior appalling. “I thought maybe a crazy person or a bum with a weird haircut had come into our building,” Evans said. “He was grabbing people’s laptops and throwing them, screaming ‘tie your **** down!’”

https://www.duffelblog.com/2018/10/...tupid-people-who-stay-around-for-long-enough/



So I in my own way remind us that elections have consequences.

More Tangmo Babble and quoting a parody piece.....

Priceless
 
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