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Category: Quotes of the Week

  • Quote of the Week, 8 MAY 05

    A ship is always referred to as she because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

    —Admiral Chester Nimitz

  • Quote of the Week, 1 MAY 05

    We played remote bases, the kind of bases where guys went to bed with their rifles by their sides; not for safety, but for companionship.

    Bob Hope

  • Quote of the Week, 24 APR 05

    I don’t know what the hell this “logistics” is that Marshall is always talking about, but I want some of it.

    —Admiral Ernest Joseph King, 1942

  • Quote of the Week, 17 APR 05

    Well, we did not build those bombers to carry crushed rose petals.

    —General Thomas S. Power

  • Quote of the Week, 10 APR 05

    It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

    —Felix Frankfurter

  • Quote of the Week, 3 APR 05

    Please pardon me if I depart from the usual military orientation of my quote of the week. Below is the joke that made me stop channel surfing and listen to the rest of an unknown comedian’s routine on Comedy Central one day years ago. It loses quite a bit without his unique delivery.

    I opened a yogurt and underneath the lid it said, “Please try again.” They were having a contest that I was unaware of. I thought maybe I had opened the yogurt wrong. Or maybe Yoplait was trying to inspire me. Come on Mitch, don’t give up! An inspirational message from your friends at Yoplait, fruit on the bottom, hope on top.

    —Mitch Hedberg

  • Quote of the Week, 27 MAR 05

    We do not want war any more than the West does, but we are less interested in peace than the West, and therein lies the strength of our position.

    —Joseph Stalin

  • Quote of the Week, 20 MAR 05

    Every citizen [should] be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and the Romans, and must be that of every free state.

    —Thomas Jefferson

  • Quote of the Week, 13 MAR 05

    I’m inclined to think that a military background wouldn’t hurt anyone.

    —William Faulkner

  • Quote of the Week, 6 MAR 05

    Cavalry will never be scrapped to make room for the tanks; in the course of time cavalry may be reduced as the supply of horses in this country diminishes. This depends greatly on the life of fox-hunting.

    —British Army officer, 1921