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Originally Posted by shahadi
Is my reaction is unfounded, do quotes from Adolf Hitler belong in this game?
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I don't want to belabour the points that others have made, but even Satan gets quoted in the Bible!
Anyway, there are 100 quotes in the game.
I did work on a quote mod a while back, but never finished it.
Perhaps I'll post it some time.
Here's the vanilla list:
1. "Engines of war have long since reached their limits, and I see no further hope of any improvement in the art."*
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_Frontinus, 90 AD
2. "Gentlemen, you may be sure that of the three courses open to the enemy, he will always choose the fourth."*
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_Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke to his staff
3. "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."*
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_Sun Tzu
4. "No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account."*
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_Winston Churchill
5. "There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear."*
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_George S. Patton
6. "Never cut off a man's escape route unless you want to see just how hard he can fight"*
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_Sun Tzu
7. "Only the dead have seen the end of war."*
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_Plato
8. "I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me."*
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_Arthur Wellesley, Duke Of Wellington
9. "Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won."*
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_Arthur Wellesley, Duke Of Wellington
10. "Men are seldom born brave but they acquire courage through training and discipline - a handful of men inured to war proceed to certain victory; while on the contrary numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter."*
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_Vegetius,(3rd c. AD)
11. "When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,*
And the women come out to cut up what remains,*
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains,*
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.*
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_Rudyard Kipling
12. "The beginning of leadership is a battle for the hearts and minds of men." *
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_Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
13. "There is no point in having the capacity if you haven't got the will to use it."*
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_Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
14. "It is always a good thing to persuade the soldier that what you want him to do is right." *
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_Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
15. "A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander." *
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_General Omar Bradley
16. "There are no bad regiments, there are only bad officers." *
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_Field Marshall Lord Slim
17. "All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know from what you do." *
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_Arthur Wellesley, Duke Of Wellington
18. "A great part of the information obtained in war is contradictory, a still greater part is false and by far the greatest part is of doubtful character."*
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_Carl von Clausewitz
19. "If you do not know others and do not know yourself, you will be in danger in every single battle."*
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_Sun Tzu
20. "War is the province of uncertainty; three-fourths of the things on which action in war is based lie hidden in the fog of uncertainty."*
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_Carl von Clausewitz
21. "The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerilla wins if he does not lose." *
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_Henry Kissinger
22. "The way to avoid what is strong is to strike what is weak."*
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_Sun Tzu
23. "Opportunity in war is usually of greater value than bravery.*
Terrain is often of more value than bravery.*
Bravery is of more value than numbers."**
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_Vegetius,(3rd c. AD)
24. "It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph."*
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_Edmund Burke
25. "Tanks are easily identified, easily engaged, much-feared targets which attract all the fire on the battlefield. When all is said and done, a tank is a small steel box crammed with flammable or explosive substances which is easily converted into a mobile crematorium for its highly skilled crew."*
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_Brigadier Shelford Bidwell
26. "Being shelled is the real work of an infantry soldier, which no one talks about. Everyone has his own way of going about it. In general, it means lying face down and contracting your body into a small a space as possible."*
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_Louis Simpson
27. "War is fear cloaked in courage."*
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_General William Westmoreland
28. "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."*
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_Dwight D. Eisenhower
29. "No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb."*
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_Franklin Delano Roosevelt Fireside Chat (December 29, 1940)
30. "Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates."*
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_F E Adcock
31. "Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him."*
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_Baudouin I
32. "A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of coloured ribbon."*
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_Napoleon Bonaparte
33. "Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."*
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_Napoleon Bonaparte
34. "The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes."*
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_Napoleon Bonaparte
35. "Veni, Vidi, Vici" ( I came, I saw, I conquered)."*
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_Julius Caesar
36. "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."*
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_Sir Winston Churchill
37. "A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."*
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_Sir Winston Churchill
38. "To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war."*
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_Sir Winston Churchill
39. "The British and Americans do not want war with races or governments as such. Tyranny, external or internal, is our foe"*
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_Sir Winston Churchill
40. "Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar"*
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_Sir Winston Churchill
41. "Battles are won by slaughter and manoeuvre. The greater the general, the more he contributes in manoeuvre, the less he demands in slaughter."*
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_Sir Winston Churchill
42. "To secure peace is to prepare for war."*
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_Karl Von Clausewitz
43. "In a man to man fight the winner is the one who puts an extra round in his magazine"*
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_ Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
44. "Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity."*
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_Karl Von Clausewitz
45. "I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war."*
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_Georges Clemenceau
46. "War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory."*
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_Georges Clemenceau
47. "There is deceit and cunning and from these wars arise"*
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_Confucius
48. "The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."*
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_Calvin Coolidge
49. "No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace - in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons."*
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_Croesus of Lydia
50. "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity"*
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_Dwight David Eisenhower
51. "The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on"*
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_President Ulysses S Grant
52. "Strength lies not in defense but in attack."*
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_Adolf Hitler
53. "In war there is no substitute for victory."*
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_General Douglas MacArthur
54. "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."*
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_General Douglas MacArthur
55. "Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed."*
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_Mao Zedong
56. "To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."*
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_Lao Zi
57. "Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force."*
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_Lao Zi
58. "Great empires are not maintained by timidity."*
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_Tacitus
59. "Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything"*
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_Harry S Truman
60. "Pain is weakness leaving the body."*
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_Unknown U. S. Marine Corps slogan
61. "I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy"*
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_General William C Westmoreland
62. "History shows that there are no invincible armies."*
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_Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
63. "All war is deception"*
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_Sun Tzu
64. "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."*
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_General George S Patton Jr,
65. "A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood."*
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_General George S Patton Jr,
66. "A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."*
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_General George S Patton Jr
67. "Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory"*
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_General George S Patton Jr,
68. "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived"*
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_General George S Patton Jr,
69. "The best tank terrain is that without anti-tank weapons." *
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_Russian military doctrine
70. "Tomorrow's battle is won during today's practice."*
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_Samurai maxim
71. "All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us, they can't get away this time !."*
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_Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller USMC
72. "We're Surrounded, that Simplifies Our Problems!"*
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_Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller USMC
73. "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."*
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_Winston Churchill
74. "Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry."*
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_Oliver Cromwell
75. "There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry !"*
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_George Armstrong Custer
76. "War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over"*
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_General William Tecumseh Sherman
77. "When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend."*
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_U.S. Army training notice
78. "If the enemy is in range, so are you."*
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_Infantry Journal
79. "If your attack is going too well, you're probably walking into an ambush."*
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_Infantry Journal
80. "It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed"*
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_U.S. Air Force flight training manual
81. "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."*
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_George Orwell
82. "It is good that war is so terrible, else we should become accustomed to it."*
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_Robert E. Lee
83. "If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail."*
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_General Ulysses S. Grant
84. "Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!"*
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_General William T. Sherman
85. "The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain."*
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_Sun Tzu
86. "Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve."*
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_Sun Tzu
87. "Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience"*
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_Otto Von Bismarck
88. "People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election."*
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_Otto Von Bismarck
89. "An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy."*
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_Mao Zedong
90. "The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea."*
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_Mao Zedong
91. "When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue."*
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_Mao Zedong
92. "Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts."*
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_Mao Zedong
93. "Artillerymen believe the world consist of two types of people; other Artillerymen and targets."*
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_Unknown
94. "Ultima ratio regum." (The final argument of kings) *
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_Inscription on French cannons, on order of Louis XIV
95. "Artillery conquers and infantry occupies."*
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_J.F.C. Fuller
96. "The first shot is for the Devil, the second for God, and only the third for the King."*
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_Napoleon Bonaparte
97. "Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot."*
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_Napoleon Bonaparte
98. "One of the serious problems in planning the fight against American doctrine, is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine."*
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_Soviet, Junior Lt's Notebook
99. "Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent."*
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_Sir Basil H. Liddel-Hart
100. "Everything which the enemy least expects will succeed the best."*
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_Frederick the Great
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