John Basilone quotes

John Basilone quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Never fear your enemy but always respect them”
-- John Basilone

#Enemy Quotes #Never Fear Quotes

“The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2004). “Mollie and Other War Pieces”, p.121, U of Nebraska Press
“Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.”
“Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?”
“Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.”

Source : "The First and the Last". Book by Adolf Galland, 1954.
“Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.”
“We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.”
“How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed.”
“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
“Never fear the truth. No bad can come of discussing a true subject. No bad at all.”
“Never fear because Triple H is here.”

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