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Title: Quotes from the Single Player game
Post by: rip|MightyMax on January 07, 2008, 09:30:55 AM
Single player quotes:
 
(credits to drunky at gamefaqs)


"In war, truth is the first casualty"
*Aeschylus

"Incoming fire has the right of way."
*Unknown

"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."
*John F. Kennedy

"War does not determine who is right * only who is left"
*Burtrand Russell

"A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons."
*Admiral David D. Porter, USN

"The press is our chief ideological weapon."
*Nikita Khrushchev

"Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!"
*Nikita Khrushchev

"If the enemy is in range, so are you."
*Infantry Journal

"Cost of a single Tomahawk cruise Missile: $900,000"

"Cost of a single F*22 Raptor: $135 million"

"Cost of a single AC*130U Gunship: $190 million"

"Cost of a single F*117A Nighthawk: $122 Million"

"Cost of a single B*2 Bomber: $2.2 Billion"

"So long as there are men, there will be wars."
*Albert Einstein

"Aim towards the Enemy."
*Instruction printed on US Rocket Launcher

"I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do
to do good?"
*Robert McNamara

"Any military commander who is honest will admit he makes mistakes in the
application of military power."
*Robert McNamara

"You can make a throne of bayonets, but you cant sit on it for long."
*Boris Yeltsin

"The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle!"
*General John J. Pershing

"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty."
*Ronald Reagan

"Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist."
*Yassar Arafat

"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."
*Winston Churchill

"War is delightful to those who have not yet experienced it."
*Erasmus

"Friendly fire * isn't."
*Unknown

"Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are for
finishing it."
*Will Rogers

"I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only
when we use them for good or evil that they become good or evil."
*William Gibson

"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing."
*Edmund Burke

"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."
*Herbert Hoover

"The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong,
unless proved otherwise."
*Colin Powell

"Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share."
*Ned Dolan

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV
will be fought with sticks and stones."
*Albert Einstein

"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The
hard part is doing it."
*Norman Schwarzkopf

“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a
hundred battles.”
*Sun Tzu

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,
give him power."
*Abraham Lincoln

"If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merits of our
cause, we'd better reexamine our reasoning."
*Robert McNamara

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of
patriots and tyrants."
*Thomas Jefferson

"If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a
helicopter ** and therefore, unsafe."
*Unknown

"Five second fuses only last three seconds."
*Infantry Journal

"If your attack is going too well, you're walking into an ambush."
*Infantry Journal

"No battle plan survives contact with the enemy."
*Colin Powell

"When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend."
*U.S. Army Training Notice

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."
*John F. Kennedy

"Cost of a single Javelin Missile: $80,000"

"A leader leads by example, not by force."
*Sun Tzu

"If you can't remember, the claymore is pointed toward you."
*Unknown

"There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the
enemy. Everyone else has a second*hand opinion."
*General William Thornson

"The more marines I have around, the better I like it."
*General Clark, U.S. Army

"Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder."
*Unknown

"Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just
because you might not like what you find."
*Colin Powell

"Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo."
*Infantry Journal

"The world will not accept dictatorship or domination."
*Mikhail Gorbachev

"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before
destroying them."
*Voltaire

"Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just brave five minutes
longer."
*Ronald Reagan

"In the end, it was luck. We were *this* close to nuclear war, and luck
prevented it."
*Robert McNamara

"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

"It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed."
*U.S. Air Force Marshal

"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to
visit violence on those who would harm us."
*George Orwell

"If at first you don't succeed, call an air strike."
*Unknown

"Tracers work both ways."
*U.S. Army Ordinance

"Teamwork is essential, it gives them other people to shoot at."
*Unknown

"The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war."
*Ralph Waldo Emmerson

"We're in a world in which the possiblity of terrorism, married up with
technology, could make us very, very sorry we didn't act."
*Condoleeza Rice

"All warfare is based on deception."
*Sun Tzu

"The indefinite combination of human infallibility and nuclear weapons will
lead to the destruction of nations."
*Robert McNamara

"In war, you win or lose, live or die and the difference is just an eyelash."
*General Douglas MacArthur

"You cant say civilization dont advance for in every war, they kill you in a
new way."
*Will Rogers

"They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and
you're going to destroy nations."
*Robert McNamara

"It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of
those men who goes into battle."
*General Norman Schwarzkopf

"Any soldier worth his salt should be anti*war. And still, there are things
worth fighting for."
*General Norman Schwarzkopf

"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
*General Douglas MacArthur

"Let your plans be as dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall
like a thunderbolt."
*Sun Tzu

"Anyone, who truly wants to go to war, has truly never been there before!"
*Larry Reeves

"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered
automatic weapons."
*General Douglas MacArthur

"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth."
*George Washington

"Cluster bombing from B-52s are very, very, accurate. The bombs are guaranteed
to always hit the ground."
*USAF Ammo Troop

"If a man has done his best, what else is there?"
*General George S. Patton

"The bursting radius of a hand grenade is always one foot greater than your
jumping range."
*Unknown

"The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people
when he actually acts to undermine them."
*Ramman Kenoun

"Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself."
*Elbert Hubbard


Title: Quotes from the Single Player game
Post by: rip|mrkavanagh on January 07, 2008, 10:57:45 AM
by far my favorite!!!

"Incoming fire has the right of way."


Title: Quotes from the Single Player game
Post by: rip|forkev on January 07, 2008, 11:15:13 AM
"If at first you don't succeed, call an air strike."

AND

"Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder."


Title: Quotes from the Single Player game
Post by: rip|MightyMax on January 07, 2008, 11:21:06 AM
"When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend."   [smilie=grenade.gif]
*U.S. Army Training Notice


Title: Quotes from the Single Player game
Post by: snOw on January 07, 2008, 05:23:00 PM
friendly fire...isnt


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