Tanks Quotes

• The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Gun, Fire

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.528, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind.

  Robert Fisk

  Two, Kind, Reincarnation

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• If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.

  Heinz Guderian

  Desperate Situations, Victory, Succeed

  Heinz Guderian (2001). “Panzer Leader”, p.43, Da Capo Press

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• Guns and tanks and planes are nothing unless there is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and great productiveness behind it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Heart, Gun

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• To operate а tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people.

  David Ayer

  People, Individual, Crew

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• If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.

  Dick Gregory

  Funny Sarcastic, Alcohol, Drug

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• My men can eat their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas.

  George S. Patton

  Army, Men, Belts

  "The Struggle for Europe". Book by Chester Wilmot, p. 473, 1972.

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• Tanks are new and special weapon-newer than, as special, and certainly as valuable as the airplane.

  George S. Patton

  War, Military, Airplane

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• Regardless of how much is left in the tank, you gotta fight back!

  Eric Thomas

  Fighting, Left

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• Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb

  Matthieu Ricard

  Suicide, Bombs, Weak

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• However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.

  Paul von Hindenburg

  Perfection, Troops, Facts

  Paul von Hindenburg (1921). “Out of My Life”

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• Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.

  David Frum

  Thinking, Views, Point Of View

  "David Frum On Republicans And Health Care". 'All Things Considered' with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. April 1, 2010.

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• Onward we stagger, and if the tanks come, may God help the tanks.

  William Orlando Darby

  Funny, Military, May

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• The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Evil

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• Perhaps you are thinking: 'But a tank costs several million dollars, not including floor mats. I don't have that kind of money.' Don't be silly. You're a consumer, right? You have credit cards, right? Perhaps you are thinking: 'Yes, but how am I going to pay the credit-card company?' Don't be silly. You have a tank, right?

  Dave Barry

  Silly, Thinking, Dollars

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• The grass is always greener over the septic tank.

  Erma Bombeck

  Grass Is Greener On The Other Side, Grass Is Always Greener, Grass

  Erma Bombeck (2014). “Es darf auch mal Champagner sein”, p.2, Edel:Books

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• Happiness is a tiger in your tank and a pussycat in your back seat.

  Johnny Carson

  Happiness, Seats, Tigers

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• Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Fighting, Russia, Order

  Appeal to the military to not participate in the coup attempt, while standing on a tank during troop movements against the Russian White House, August 19, 1991.

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• They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Cities, Sick, Mind

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• They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Military, War, Son

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1942, Volume 11”, p.355, Best Books on

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• I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Thinking, I Can

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• I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.

  Albert Speer

  Numbers, Racism, Important

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• Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.

  Shirley Temple

  Crush

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• In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

  Ralph Peters

  War, Marine, Killing

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• If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we should still need tanks and generals?

  Mother Teresa

  Thinking, Needs, Neighbor

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