"I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers." - Franz Liszt
"Even if a submarine should work by a miracle, it will never be used. No country in this world would ever use such a vicious and petty form of warfare." - British Admiral William Henderson (1914)
PS: Not really a quote, but this is from the Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce.
VALOR, n. A soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.
"Why have you halted?" roared the commander of a division and Chickamauga, who had ordered a charge. "Move forward, sir, at once."
"General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy."
PSS: This thread made me remember another goof.
Having emigrated to Austria during World War I, Leon Trotsky spent much of his time playing chess at the Cafe Central. Many viewed the Russian as docile, quiet man who kept to himself.
When Leopold Berchtold, foreign minister of Austria-Hungary, was told that the war would provoke revolution in Russia, even if not in the Habsburg monarchy, he replied: "Russia is not a land where revolutions break out. And who will lead this revolution? Perhaps Mr. Bronstein [Trotsky] sitting over there at the Cafe Central?"
) while the supply phase is under calculation, but for some, they prefer something more historically themed... This is where the great people reading the forum can play a role.
