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Offline Mr T

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Favourite Historical Quotes
« on: September 21, 2014, 09:27:56 pm »
Post a discussion in history where someone has been epicly owned, or a badass/brace quote or just a simple quote from one historical figure that appeals to you, I'll start off.


Discussion between a British officer and French privateer Robert Surcouf in the Napoleonic Wars:

British Officer: You French fight for money, while we British fight for honour.

Surcouf: Sir, a man fights for what he lacks the most.


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Re: Favourite Historical Quotes
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2014, 10:32:13 pm »
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." - Winston Churchill


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Re: Favourite Historical Quotes
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2014, 10:39:16 pm »
"A battle without artillery would be nothing more than an ugly brawl." -Some guy i've forgotten whom.

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Re: Favourite Historical Quotes
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2014, 02:45:30 pm »
"Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history"(Before the invasion of France 1940) - Adolf Hitler

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Re: Favourite Historical Quotes
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2014, 03:03:17 pm »
"A battle without artillery would be nothing more than an ugly brawl." -Some guy i've forgotten whom.

That was Napoleon, wasn't it?
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Re: Favourite Historical Quotes
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2014, 03:07:04 pm »
I thought it was some British Artillery General

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Re: Favourite Historical Quotes
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2014, 04:16:21 pm »
I think it may have been Napoleon


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Re: Favourite Historical Quotes
« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2014, 05:39:16 pm »
The Pope? How many divisions does he have?-Joseph Stalin
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Re: Favourite Historical Quotes
« Reply #8 on: September 23, 2014, 06:35:40 pm »
My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Arthur Wellesley

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Re: Favourite Historical Quotes
« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2014, 04:44:32 pm »
The Pope? How many divisions does he have?-Joseph Stalin
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Re: Favourite Historical Quotes
« Reply #10 on: September 30, 2014, 04:54:30 pm »
After the battle of Kulm 1813, the captured General Vandamme was brought to and accused by Emperor Alexander I of Russia of being a brigand and plunderer.

He retorted, "I am neither a plunderer nor a brigand, but in any case, my contemporaries and history will not reproach me for having murdered my own father."

This statement hinted at the widespread belief that Alexander I was implicated in the murder of his father, Emperor Paul I.


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Re: Favourite Historical Quotes
« Reply #12 on: November 02, 2014, 05:44:52 pm »
I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery.
But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I’ll kill you all.
-- General James Mattis
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Re: Favourite Historical Quotes
« Reply #13 on: November 24, 2014, 01:24:49 am »
"Where do you put the bayonet on the damn thing?" Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller(upon seeing a flamethrower demonstrated for the first time)
"I can imagine of a perfect world. A world without violence. Without armies. Without war. And I can imagine us attacking that world because they wouldn't be expecting it." (Sword of Sedition)

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Re: Favourite Historical Quotes
« Reply #14 on: November 24, 2014, 02:34:51 am »
"Tout hussard qui n'est pas mort à trente ans est un jean-foutre."

= "Any hussar who isn't dead at the age of 30 is a lazy bastard."

-Antoine Lasalle.
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