# COD4 War Quotes **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [September 17, 2009, 7:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cod4-war-quotes/73657 "2009-09-17T07:58:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 7:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cod4-war-quotes/73657/1 "2009-09-17T07:58:32Z")
Quote list from COD4 when you died. Some are pretty funny… “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 fallibility 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 “Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.” -Vladimir Putin “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 ---
**Author:** ![TrueBlue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/trueblue/32/7245_2.png) [@TrueBlue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TrueBlue)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 8:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cod4-war-quotes/73657/2 "2009-09-17T08:04:16Z")
Playing that last mission; in the airliner on Veteran, you get to see these every minute or so :bloated: > “Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.” > -General Douglas MacArthur Oldie but a goodie :lol: ---
**Author:** ![Jack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jack/32/7613_2.png) [@Jack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jack)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 7:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cod4-war-quotes/73657/3 "2009-09-20T07:27:28Z")
These are awesome. I just had a LAN party again prepping for MW2…