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Quotations from military

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Russian warship, go fuck yourself

phrase of a Ukrainian soldier during the 2022 Battle of Snake Island, which spread as an Internet meme

Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant

England expects that every man will do his duty

signal sent by Admiral Nelson to English ships before the Battle of Trafalgar

the war to end war

term for World War I

Death to fascism, freedom to the people

Yugoslav Partisan motto

Greek phrase and motto, a classical expression of defiance, according to Plutarch addressed to the Persian King Xerxes by the Spartan King Leonidas before the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC)

We shall fight on the beaches

Common title given to a speech delivered by Winston Churchill

blood, toil, tears, and sweat

political catchphrase

Lord Kitchener Wants You

British military recruitment poster

might makes right

the view that morality is, or ought to be, determined by those in power

This was their finest hour

1940 speech by Winston Churchill

how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

reductio ad absurdum of angelology; idiom for wasting time debating pointless issues

Never was so much owed by so many to so few

speech by the British prime minister Winston Churchill on 20 August 1940

Hitler's Obersalzberg Speech

adolf Hitler Speech

Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius

Latin phrase from the Albigensian Crusade

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Daddy, What Did You Do in the Great War?

Come and take it

Slogan used by armies during last stands

Loose lips sink ships