| Go
back and tell your Commandant, "Australia's here to stay". |
Maj
H G Moor, South Africa, 1900 on being asked to surrender. |
| I
cannot surrender. I am in command of Australians who would cut my throat
if I did. |
Colonel
C Hore, Elands River, South Africa |
| Surrender?
Don't be bloody silly, we're Australian. |
Anonymous |
| I
was asked recently if I ever saw any discrimination in the Army. I
replied that the Australian Army could never be accused of
discrimination. They treat everyone like shit. |
Former
soldier (initials KJ) |
| Cry
"Havoc" and let slip the Dogs of War. |
William
Shakespeare ("Julius Caesar") |
| Lead
me, follow me, or get out of my way. |
General
George Patton |
| The
proof of a man is the danger test, It shows him up at his worst, or his
best. |
Edgar
A Guest |
| No
good decision was ever made in a swivel chair. |
George
S. Patton |
| Only
our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. |
Dwight
D. Eisenhower |
| Never
tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity. |
George
S. Patton |
Come
on you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?"
|
Gunnery
Sergeant Dan Daly, USMC 4 June 1918, France. |
| The
only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing |
Edmund
Burke |
| What
counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the
size of the fight in the dog. |
Dwight
D. Eisenhower |
| When
placed in command - take charge. |
General
"Stormin' Norman"
Schwarzkopf |
| Burn
my Flag and I will shoot you........but I'll shoot you with a lot of
love, like a good American |
Johnny
Cash, country music singer |
| The
battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the
active, the brave |
Patrick
Henry |
| Victory
belongs to the most persevering. |
Napoleon
Bonaparte |
| From
time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of
tyrants and patriots. |
Thomas
Jefferson |
| We
have met the enemy and they are ours! |
Commodore
Oliver Hazard Perry, 1813 |
| They
are a damn site better than the U.S. Army, at least we know that they
will be there in the morning. |
Lewis
B. "Chesty" Puller
when a journalist asked him about being surrounded by 22 enemy divisions |
| Our
Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't
be any AMERICA because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our
women and breed a hardier race! |
Lt.
Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC |
| Veni,
Vedi, Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered) |
Julius
Caesar |
| War
is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and
degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing
is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is
willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal
safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless
made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. |
John
Stewart Mill |
| War
is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the
sooner it will be over. |
William
Tecumseh Sherman |
| We're
surrounded. That simplifies the problem. |
Lewis
B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC Version 1 |
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 |
Version
2 |
| They
are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an
enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can't get away from us now! |
Version
3 |
| Freedom
isn't free. |
Anonymous |
| Never
give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or
petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might
of the enemy. |
Winston
Churchill |
| If
it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, pick it up; and if you can't
pick it up, paint it. |
Anonymous |
| The
'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of
the Army is the non-commissioned man! |
Rudyard
Kipling |
| Soldiers
are men...most apt for all manner of services and best able to support
and endure the infinite toils and continual hazards of war. |
Henry
Knyvett |
| A
soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general. |
Adapted
from Henry G. Bohn |
| Army:
A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats. |
Josephus
Daniels |
| Two
armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other. |
Napoleon
I |
| Some
people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a
difference in the world, but the Marines don't have that problem. |
Ronald
Reagan |
| A
young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is
not likely to have what it takes to make a living. |
John
F. Kennedy |
| Take
me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines". |
Major
General Chesty Puller, USMC - while on a Battalion inspection. |
| Neither
a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for
the train of the future to run over him. |
Dwight
D. Eisenhower
|
| A
ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons. |
Admiral
David D. Porter, USN |
| The
object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other
bastard die for his. |
George
Patton |
| You
do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not
leadership. |
Dwight
D. Eisenhower |
| Diplomats
are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
|
Will
Rogers |
| "Si
vis pacem, para bellum" ("If
you want peace, prepare for war!") |
Flavius
Vegetius Renatus (ca 390 AD) |
| Don't
forget that you're First Marines! Not all the Communists in hell can
overrun you! |
Chesty
Puller motivating his men at Chosin Reservoir |
| Be
convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to
be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. |
Thucydides |
| Soldiers
usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them. |
Napoleon
Bonaparte |
| We
make war that we may live in peace. |
Aristotle |
| Battles
are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants
and privates. |
F.E.
Adcock |
| We
need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every
passing ship. |
Omar
Nelson Bradley |
| In
war there is no substitute for victory. |
General
Douglas MacArthur |
| Once
we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat
brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. |
Ernest
Miller Hemmingway |
| Perpetual
optimism is a force multiplier. |
Colin
Powell |
| The
number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to
the square of the distance of his duties from the front line. |
Charles
Edward Montague |
| The
mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all
that the Air Force has accomplished during the war. |
Chesty
Puller in a letter to his wife while in Korea |
| Always
forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. |
Oscar
Wilde |
| Live
for something rather than die for nothing. |
George
Patton |
| Being
in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts
have adult supervision. |
Blake
Clark |
| There
is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never
listen to any fear. |
George
S. Patton |
| Discipline
is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than
the enemy. |
Helvetius |
| You
don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em. |
Lieutenant-General
Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller USMC |
| Every
man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier. |
Samuel
Johnson |
| Leadership
is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because
he wants to do it. |
Dwight
Eisenhower
|
| People
sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand
ready to do violence on their behalf. |
George
Orwell |
| Now
I recall the Recon Marines ragged, filthy cammie shirted young men in
green paint who move silent like the fog with deadly purpose in their
eyes. Swift, Silent, Deadly. I smile. |
GYSGT
Correll, USMC, Retired, Recon Marine |
| There
is no victory at bargain basement prices. |
Dwight
D. Eisenhower |
| To
dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is
no substitute for victory. |
Douglas
MacArthur |
| The
God of War hates those who hesitate. |
Euripides,
480-406 BC. |
| Paper-work
will ruin any military force |
Lt-Gen
Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller USMC |
| Hard
pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver.
Situation excellent. I am attacking. |
Ferdinand
Foch, at the Battle of the Marne
|
| When
a US Army captain asked him for the direction of the line of retreat,
Col Puller called his Tank Commander, gave them the Army position, and
ordered: 'If they start to pull back from that line, even one foot, I
want you to open fire on them'. Turning to the captain, he replied
"Does that answer your question? We're here to fight". |
Chesty
Puller USMC; At Koto-ri in Korea |
| "Going
to war without France is like going deer hunting without your
accordion." |
General
Norman Schwartzkopf. |
| "A
land without memories is a people without liberty." |
(CSA)
General Robert E Lee, the only man in history to be offered the command
of BOTH sides of a war. |
