Warrior Quotes

[Browns Fan]

Let's not forget the Duke!

Courage is being scared to death, and saddling up anyway. John Wayne

Life is tough, it's tougher if your stupid. John Wayne

 

[carebear]

Whenever I think of the Eagle Cocktail, I also think of old Colonel E.J. Kennedy, "It is sufficient, son, to surprise the enemy. You don't have to f*cking astonish him."

- Vern Humphrey

 

[Boom-stick]

"typical Wop, bringing a knife to a gun fight..."

Sean Connery-The Untouchables

 

[texascarl]

Lead from the front.
Audie Murphy

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
George S. Patton

Of the Marines on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Chester W. Nimitz

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in.
Colin Powell

 

[Working Man]

LOL

"typical Wop, bringing a knife to a gun fight..."

Hey, some of us bring guns, remember Bretta is the oldest company around.

Here is another:

"I pledge all that I still own, muscle, bone, blood, and the heart that pumps it" - Lancelot in Excalibur.

Many have made such a pledge to the USA, not just in words but in their actions and in their deaths.

 

[Kaylee]

Warriors are capering heroes, good only for dying when they meet trained troops.
http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200103/0671319906___1.htm

he's got a point, ya know...

 

[Boom-stick]

Bretta

Nuff said

 

[Working Man]

Bretta

Nuff said

Woops....

I'm a bad Wop.

 

[Boom-stick]

I'm a bad Wop.

Yes, yes you are



Here's another, not so much 'Warrior' but still true...

"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail".
Benjamin Franklin

 

[wolf_from_wv]

Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm: In the absence of light, darkness prevails. There are things that go bump in the night, Agent Myers. Make no mistake about that. And we are the ones who bump back. (Hellboy)

Laconic phrase from wikipedia:

One famous example comes from the time of the invasion of Philip II of Macedon. With key Greek city-states in submission, he turned his attention to Sparta and sent a message: "If I win this war, you will be slaves forever." In another version, Philip proclaims: "You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city." The Spartan ephors sent back a one word reply: "If." Subsequently, both Philip and Alexander would avoid Sparta entirely.

Spartan mothers or wives gave a departing warrior his shield with the words: Συν ται η επι ται! or Ή ταν ή επί τας!, "With it or on it!", implying that he should return (victoriously) with his shield, or (his cremated body in an urn) upon it, but by no means after saving himself by throwing away his heavy shield and fleeing.

When a hoplite described his comrade's brave death in battle, a Spartan woman commented: "Such a noble journey; shouldn't you have gone too?"

Spartans normally fought with a short sword. When its size was mocked, the Spartan responded with, "It's long enough to reach the heart."

When a Spartan complained to his mother that his sword was too short, she replied, "It would be long enough if you took a step forward."

On her husband Leonidas' departure for battle with the Persians at Thermopylae, Gorgo, Queen of Sparta asked what she should do. Knowing he was unlikely to return, he advised: "Marry a good man and bear good children."

King Charilaus, explaining why the list of Spartan laws was so short, said: "Men of few words require few laws."

 

[Richmond]

another movie quote

Wonderful thread.

From The 13th Warrior:

Sjá, þar sé ek föður minn.
Sjá, þar sé ek móður mina ok systur mina ok bróður minn.
Sjá, þar sé ek allan minn frændgarð.
Sjá, kalla þeim tíl min.
Biðja mér at taka minn stað hjá þeim í sölum Valhallar, þar drengiligr menn munu lifa allan aldr.

Lo there do I see my father
Lo there do I see my mother and my brothers and my sisters
Lo there do I see the line of my people back to the beginning
Lo they do call to me
They bid me take my place among them in Valhalla, where the brave may live forever


One of my father's buddies in the 101st Airborne, WWII, on how he felt when they boarded the plane before D-Day:
"I was breathing fast and about to panic, and I looked over at your Dad, who was sitting there so calm and relaxed. I said to myself, if he can be that calm then I can be calm too, and I held that picture of him in my mind all the way across the English Channel and out the door of the plane."

My Dad, on what he was repeating to himself over and over at that time, and all the way across the Channel until his boots touched Normandy:
Please Lord let me land in Normandy alive and without [pooping] my pants, and I promise I will do my best.

 

[critter]

Never do thine enemy a small hurt.

 

[revjen45]

"A dog has whizzed on my tipi" (cleaned up for decorum) A cheyenne warrior's saying for dismissing the annoyances of life.

 

[Cosmoline]

"It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking." J. Caesar, attributed in Plutarch's life of Antony

Audaces fortuna juvat. Virgil

 

[MASTEROFMALICE]

Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.
Latin: Do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it.-Virgil

And of course in my signature the translation from Greek is This, or on this. Refering to the Spartans' shields. Return with your shield victorious or on your shield a corpse.

 

[sacp81170a]

It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand. - Apache Proverb

Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is. - Clint Eastwood in "The Outlaw Josey Wales".

It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues. There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see, and so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life... or death. It shall be life. - Will Sampson as Ten Bears in "The Outlaw Josey Wales".

 

[RevolverMan567]

boondock saints

best part of best movie ever made:



Now you will receive us.

We do not ask for your poor, or your hungry.

We do not want your tired and sick.

It is your corrupt we claim.

It is your evil that will be sought by us.

With every breath we shall hunt them down.

Each day, we will spill their blood till it rains down from the skies.

Do not kill, do not rape, do not steal, these are principles that every man of every faith can embrace.

These are not polite suggestions, these are codes of behavior and those of you that ignore them will pay the dearest cost.

There are varying degrees of evil, we urge you lesser forms of filth not to push the bounds and cross over, into true corruption, into our domain.

For if you do, one day you will look behind you and you will see we three.

And on that day, you will reap it.

And we will send you to whatever god you wish.

 

[enfield303]

see the sig line.

 

[English Bob]

"Death Or Glory"

Motto British 21/17th Lancers

 

[chieftain]

Here is a few:

“Stand Your Ground, Don’t Fire Unless Fired Upon. But If They Mean To Have War, Let it Start Here.”
--Captain John Parker, Lexington, Massachusetts April 19, 1775

"From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea, written in blood on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo- 'In war there is no substitute for victory.“
--General Douglas MacArthur 1951

"You ask, what is our policy? I say: To wage war... with all our might and with all the strength God will give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny... What is our aim? I answer with just one word: Victory!... absolute, final, immaculate... victory for which neither we nor our descendants will never apologize!"
-- Sir Winston Churchill

"In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!"
--Eddie Rickenbacker, WWI Flying Ace

Collateral damage is the grease for the wheels of war.
--Lt David Lenzi

"If you're going through hell, keep going."
--Winston Churchill

"The Hun is either at your throat or at your feet."
--Winston Churchill

"Victory at all cost. Victory in spite of all terror. Victory no matter how long and how hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival"
--Winston Churchill

“…an imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan.”
-- Gen George S. Patton

"Do not attack the First Marine Division. Leave the yellowlegs alone. Strike the American Army."
- Orders given to Communist troops in the Korean War;
shortly afterward, the Marines were ordered to not wear their khaki leggings.

"You cannot exaggerate about the Marines. They are convinced to the point of arrogance, that they are the most ferocious fighters on earth- and the amusing thing about it is that they are."
- Father Kevin Keaney, 1st MarDiv Chaplain, Korean War

"They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time."
- Chesty Puller, USMC, Chosin Reservoir

"I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold."
- 1stLt. Clifton B. Cates, USMC in Belleau Wood, 19 July 1918

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
—Winston Churchill

"Democracy has at least one merit, namely that a Member of Parliament cannot be stupider than his constituents, for the more stupid he is, the more stupid they were to elect him." - Bertrand Russell

"Colt: the original point-and-click interface." - Unknown

"Always keep your clothes and your weapons where you can find them in the dark."
- Robert Heinlein

Mission of the Marine Corps:
Locate
Fix
Close with
And destroy the enemy.
--GySgt Stuart

"Integrity is what you do when no one is looking." - Unknown

"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." --Mary Shafer, NASA Engineer

"When going through hell, keep going!"
--Winston Churchill.

"Keep shooting as long as you can see the enemy in your sights. When he disappears, find another one."
--GySgt Stuart

Good luck

 

[Working Man]

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
— Talleyrand, French diplomat (1754-1838)
Earliest version attributed to Alexander the Great.

Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they
can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury
that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.
-Nicolo Machiavelli

 

[Jeff White]

Now we're quoting the musings of fictional writers. I initially left this open because it might generate some discussion of mindset. That discussion hasn't happened.

Jeff