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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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