Combat Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• See, decide, attack, reverse.

  Erich Hartmann

  Aviation, Reverse

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• Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours - to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world.

  Savitri Devi

  Men, Race, Allies

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• In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.

  Ezra Pound

  Order, Ideas, Rose

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• 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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• The duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that area. Anything else is rubbish.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Sky, Enemy, Pilots

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• Anybody who doesn't have fear is an idiot. It's just that you must make the fear work for you. Hell when somebody shot at me, it made me madder than hell, and all I wanted to do was shoot back.

  Robin Olds

  Military, Idiot, Hell

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

  Oswald Boelcke

  Fall, Men, Aviation

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

  Rene Fonck

  Hands, Target, Bullets

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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 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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