Military history in general, WWII in particular..
Me too, there are some great quotes out there that we can use to help give us the right mindset in survival situations, and not to pussyfoot around, for example-
"Victory is reserved for those willing to pay its price"
-Sun Tzu (600 B.C)
"Inflict the maximum amount of wound,death and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time."-Gen.George Patton
"Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don't depend on it"
-Anon
"War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over"
-William Tecumseh Sherman
"All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife"
- Daniel Boone
"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it"- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Give them [the enemy] nothing... Take from them everything"- Leonidas 1st, King of Sparta
"Morality ends where a gun begins"- Ayn Rand 1905-1982
"My pistol made contact with the mans face as I fired"-
-Young cavalry officer Winston Churchill as his unit charged into muslim troops near Omdurman
"Give me a man who'll fight!"
-Pres Roosevelt looking for a commander to stop Japanese expansion after Pearl Harbor (He found one in Adm. Chester Nimitz)
"Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose"
-Winston Churchill
"Take arrows in your forehead not in your back"
-Samurai maxim
"Never do an enemy only a small injury"
-Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
"I ordered the sinking of the Belgrano because it was threatening our Task Force"
-Margaret Thatcher 1982
"We need to destroy, not attack, not damage, not surround. I want to
destroy the Republican Guard"
-General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"The Republican Guard divisions outside of Baghdad are now dead. I find it interesting when folks say we're softening them up. We're not softening them up, we're killing them"
-Lt. Gen. Michael Moseley USAF, 5 April 2003
"Already, only twenty-three minutes after the attack had started, Cologne was ablaze from end to end, and the main force of the attack was still to come"
-Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, VC, RAF Bomber Command
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"
-Gen Douglas MacArthur
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far"
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The Black Hills are MINE, we want no white men here!"
-Sioux Chief Crazy Horse
"I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me"
-Archilocus (Greek mercenary 650 BC)
I was glad we were killing them"
-Winston Churchill (describing his feelings as a child during the Zulu War)
"The land north of the Rio Grande is
mine, tell Don Diego to stay off of it"
- John Wayne in 'Red River'
