“Come and take them” didn’t make it
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April 23rd, 2012 at 12:15 pm
I prefer the Gonzales version, “Come and take it,” from the flag the Texas settlers made. This led to one of the more amusing misunderstandings of the fight for Texas Independence, when the Mexican military took the translation literally, rather than with the intended sarcasm, and got shot at.
April 23rd, 2012 at 12:31 pm
It’s ok. Μολον Λαβε will last as long as men do.
April 23rd, 2012 at 12:48 pm
I thought Schwartzkopf’s description of Saddam would have made the list.
April 23rd, 2012 at 1:18 pm
“Come and take them” was in the first list of 10 quotes.
It is in the link at the intro to the article that says “but we’ve already gone over those”
April 23rd, 2012 at 1:20 pm
What does “Come at me, bro” look like in Greek?
April 23rd, 2012 at 1:26 pm
The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks didn’t make it? Inconceivable!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks/
It even works in today’s venacular.
April 23rd, 2012 at 2:34 pm
“There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!”
Baghdad Bob
April 23rd, 2012 at 3:26 pm
Ελλα, ρε.
April 23rd, 2012 at 3:28 pm
Ella, re. (Come on, (re is not really translatable, it’s an impolite expletive of “you”, “bro” is as good as any.)
April 23rd, 2012 at 4:56 pm
@Rabbit. Thank You. I’m sitting at my desk at work laughing so hard I’m crying…
April 23rd, 2012 at 5:34 pm
“Don’t tase me, bro!” might fit in the opposite list of famous phrases uttered just before ignominious defeat.
April 23rd, 2012 at 6:26 pm
Rabbit, thanks for sharing that, history is awesome! If stuff like this made it into the books, rather than the watered down, homogenized, inoffesive gunk, I think we’d have quite a few more scholars!
April 23rd, 2012 at 7:47 pm
The problem is, the Spartans had a bunch of good quotes from that war.
My personal favorite was, in reply to the threat that the Persian arrows would blot out the Sun,
“Then we shall fight in the shade”.
That’s pretty badace.
April 23rd, 2012 at 9:34 pm
I have not yet begun to fight!
John Paul Jones
April 23rd, 2012 at 9:37 pm
Sweat saves blood.
Erwin Rommel
April 23rd, 2012 at 9:38 pm
Also by Rommel:
Kick them, don’t piss on them!
April 23rd, 2012 at 9:38 pm
My mother was pure Spartan, more beautiful than Helen, and she had three sons whom see wanted to see married. When we had the audacity to tell her that we had not yet found the right girl, her answer could have come from King Leonidas, “They all have the same thing”.
April 23rd, 2012 at 9:47 pm
Death was the best Spartan men could hope for, Veshir. Their lives were pretty much joyless from age seven. They were sent out naked and had to steal food. If they married, they could not live with their wives. If they did not marry, they had to parade around naked. If they had not enough of an inheritance to buy their weapons and mess hall sustenance, they lost their citizenship. Don’t mess with people with little to lose.
April 23rd, 2012 at 10:03 pm
I think Mrs. Reagan got it right the first time. Just say no.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:30 am
Philip II of Macedon message to Sparta upon invading Greece: “If I win this war, you will be slaves forever.”
Spartan Ephors’ reply: “If”
April 24th, 2012 at 9:15 am
When this is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in Hell.
Don’t cheer, men. Those poor devils are dying.
Clearly, the Navy is torn on this. Eloquent though.
April 24th, 2012 at 10:11 am
We’ll use their guts to grease the treads of our tanks!
George Patton
April 24th, 2012 at 10:15 am
“They’re on our right, they’re on our left, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us; they can’t get away from us this time.”
Chesty Puller, USMC, Chosin Reservoir, Korean War
April 24th, 2012 at 11:22 am
I always liked the apocryphal story about the Kaiser visiting Switzerland before WWI.
During a state visit, the Kaiser is attending a Grand Review of the Swiss Army in his honor. He turns to the Swiss general standing next to him and asks “How many men do you have under arms?”
“I can fully mobilize 1 million men in 24 hours”
The Kaiser, being an insecure, aggressive jerk, sneers “And what would you do if I invaded with 5 million men?”
The Swiss shrugs, “Each of my men fires 5 shots, and then we go home”
April 24th, 2012 at 7:09 pm
“I have come here to chew bubble gum, and kick ass. And I am all out of bubble gum.”
Yes, I know it’s from a rather corny sci-fi movie, but I thought it was awesome at the time.
HOWEVER, I think my next favorite reply is going to come from the upcoming Avengers movie:
Evil bad guy: “I have an army!”
Tony Stark: “We have a Hulk.”
April 25th, 2012 at 1:03 am
During the Battle of the Bulge, as the Germans made a temporary breakthrough in the American lines and cut a unit off, “poor sons of bitches, they’ve got us surrounded.”
Also, upon receiving, via a German courier, a written ultimatum to surrender, Gen. McAuliff, responded, “Nuts”, leaving the German commander scratching his head for lack of comprehension.