Combat Quotes - Page 31

• The best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages, talking about their weeks in the hospital or the way meat has gone up, or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels.

  Joseph Mitchell

  Baby, Loneliness, Men

  Joseph Mitchell (2010). “My Ears Are Bent”, p.11, Vintage

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• To combat hatred directed toward a person, a Buddhist cultivates loving kindness toward that person.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Kindness, Hatred

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• It is natural for the ordinary American when he sees something wrong to feel not only that there should be a law against it but, also that an organization should be formed to combat it.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Law, Organization, Ordinary

  Gunnar Myrdal (1944). “An American Dilemma, Volume 2: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy”, p.810, Transaction Publishers

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• It is not enough to belong to a religion. You also have to put it into practice. Religion is like medicine. You have to ingest it to combat the illness.

  Dalai Lama

  Practice, Medicine, Illness

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• Thus, Protestantism will always stand up for the advancement of all Germans as such, as long as matters of inner purity or national deepening as well as German freedom are involved, since all these things have a firm foundation in its own being; but it combats with the greatest hostility any attempt to rescue the nation from the embrace of its most mortal enemy, since its attitude toward the Jews just happens to be more or less dogmatically established.

  Adolf Hitler

  Attitude, Long, Enemy

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• I believe the connection is growing stronger. Just to think that 40-plus years ago, service members would return from combat to get spit on by so many civilians. Regardless of what we think about a conflict, we must always honor and be grateful for those men and women who serve.

  Lee Zeldin

  Grateful, Believe, Men

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• The use of our military in combat should first require declaration of war. I have long called for reinstating the military draft, simply because I believe strongly that a national decision to go to war must also include a broad commitment to share its burdens. Whenever Congress decides to fund a war or other U.S. combat activities, it must provide a means to pay for it-then and there-not later. If we don't have the will to fully share the burdens of war, then we have no right to send our sons and daughters into harm's way.

  Charles Rangel

  Daughter, War, Military

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• We need a president who will lead with a stronger, more consistent foreign policy. We also need our commander in chief to put more faith in military leadership who have all of the combat experience. It’s bad policy to try to micromanage too much operationally and tactically from a desk in the Oval Office.

  Lee Zeldin

  Military, Office, Trying

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• Aggressiveness is good in a combat leader. Combining that with ambition and insecurity becomes more problematic.

  Richard North Patterson

  Ambition, Leader, Insecurity

  Richard North Patterson (2011). “In the Name of Honour”, p.255, Pan Macmillan

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• The most important thing in fighting was shooting, next the various tactics in coming into a fight and last of all flying ability itself.

  Billy Bishop

  Military, Fighting, Flying

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In nearly all cases where machines have been downed, it was during a fight which had been very short, and the successful burst of fire had occurred within the space of a minute after the beginning of actual hostilities.

  Billy Bishop

  Fighting, Successful, Fire

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I fly close to my man, aim well and then of course he falls down.

  Oswald Boelcke

  Fall, Men, Aviation

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• I had no system of shooting as such. It is definitely more in the feeling side of things that these skills develop. I was at the front five and a half years, and you just got a feeling for the right amount of lead.

  Gunther Rall

  Years, Skills, Feelings

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• When one has shot down one's first, second or third opponent, then one begins to find out how the trick is done.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Done, Opponents, Firsts

  Manfred Von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.93, Pen and Sword

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• I put my bullets into the target as if I placed them there by hand.

  Rene Fonck

  Hands, Target, Bullets

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• You can have computer sights of anything you like, but I think you have to go to the enemy on the shortest distance and knock him down from point-blank range. You'll get him from in close. At long distance, it's questionable.

  Erich Hartmann

  Distance, Thinking, Sight

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• I am not a good shot. Few of us are. To make up for this I hold my fire until I have a shot of less than 20 degrees deflection and until I'm within 300 yards. Good discipline on this score can make up for a great deal.

  John C. Meyer

  Fire, Discipline, Yards

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• I opened fire when the whole windshield was black with the enemy . . . at minimum range . . . it doesn't matter what your angle is to him or whether you are in a turn or any other maneuver.

  Erich Hartmann

  Fire, Black, Enemy

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• As long as I look into the muzzles, nothing can happen to me. Only if he pulls lead am I in danger.

  Hans-Joachim Marseille

  Long, Muzzle, Looks

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• Everything in the air that is beneath me, especially if it is a one seater . . . is lost, for it cannot shoot to the rear.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Air, Aviation, Lost

  Manfred Von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.134, Pen and Sword

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• I started shooting when I was much too far away. That was merely a trick of mine. I did not mean so much as to hit him as to frighten him, and I succeeded in catching him. He began flying curves and this enabled me to draw near.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Mean, Curves, Flying

  Manfred Von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.134, Pen and Sword

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• I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.

  Michael Apted

  War, Air, Sea

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