Military Insignia

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping that it will eat him last."

Winston Churchill

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Let us go inland and be killed."

General Norman Cota, Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944

"The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters before the shooting begins."

Field Marshall Erwin Rommel

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

Mao Tse-Tung

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."

Joseph Stalin

"Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return."

Colin Powell - when asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if the planned invasion of Iraq was American 'empire building'

"It is God's job to forgive Osama bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Colin Powell - On the eve of 'Desert Storm'

"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me."

General George S. Patton

Rule #29: "Always make your opponent think you know more than you really know."

General Phil Sheridan

"Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates’"

F.E. Adcock

"I do not fear an army of lions, if they are led by a lamb. I do fear and army of sheep, if they are led by a lion."

Alexander the Great