Quote:
Originally posted by surfin4lifer
don't know who the quote is from....
"The point of was is not to die for your country but make the other bastard die for his"
--unknown
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Patton said it, but it wasn't worded like that. It was part of his speech to the 3rd Army, 6th Armored Division on May 31, 1944 in England.
Quote:
Now, I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
Men, all this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans traditionally love to fight. All REAL Americans love the sting of battle.
When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big league ball players, the toughest boxer. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in Hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war. Because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.
An army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. The bilious bastards who wrote that stuff about individuality for the Saturday Evening Post don't know anything more about real battle than they do about fornicating.
We have the finest food and equipment, the best spirit, and the best men in the world. You know, my God, I actually pity those poor bastards we're going up against. My God, I do. We're not just going to shoot the bastards, we're going to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks! We're going to murder those lousy Hun bastards by the bushel!
Now, some of you boys, I know, are wondering whether or not you'll chicken out under fire. Don't worry about it. I can assure you that you'll all do your duty. The Nazis are the enemy. Wade into them! Spill their blood! Shoot them in the belly! When you put your hand into a bunch of goo that a moment before was your best friend's face, you'll know what to do.
There's another thing I want you to remember. I don't want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We're not holding anything; we'll let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly, and we're not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy. We're going to hold onto him by the nose, and we're going to kick him in the ass! We're going to kick the hell out of him all the time, and we're going to go through him like crap through a goose.
Now, there's one thing that you men will be able to say when you get back home, and you may thank God for it. Thirty years from now when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee, and he asks you, "What did you do in the great World War Two?" You won't have to say, "Well, I shoveled **** in Louisiana."
All right now, you sons of bitches, you know how I feel. Oh . . . I will be proud to lead you wonderful guys into battle anytime, anywhere.
That's all.
– General George S. Patton Jr. (1885-1945)
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The quote hanging in my locker:
"I try not to let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
And in case Mr. Fu reads this:
Why in the hell can't the army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines?
-General John J. Pershing, U.S. Army
The safest place in Korea was right behind a platoon of Marines. Lord, how they could fight.
- Major General Frank Lowe, U.S. Army
I can never see a United States Marine without experiencing a feeling of reverence.
- General Johnson, U.S. Army
The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle.
- General Pershing, U.S. Army
The more Marines I have around, the better I like it.
- General Wesley Clark, U.S. Army
I can't say enough about the two Marine divisions. If I use words like brilliant, it would really be an under-description of the absolutely superb job they did in breaching the so-called impenetrable barrier... Absolutely superb operation, a textbook, and I think it'll be studied for many, many years to come as the way to do it.
- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 27 February 1991
We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of
this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?
-Gen. John W. Vessey Jr., USA, Chairman of the the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the assault on Grenada, 1983