Albert Kesselring quotes

“War is possible only if you have a lot of enemies. If all the enemies get together and form one front - if you cut down the number of enemies - there would be no war.”
-- Albert Kesselring

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

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“I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.”
-- Albert Kesselring

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

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“A military leader often faces a situation he has to deal with, but because it is his duty, no court can try him.”
-- Albert Kesselring

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

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“A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.”
-- Albert Kesselring

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, (p. 322), 2004.

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“Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat.”
-- Albert Kesselring

Source : "Tail-End Charlies: The Last Battles of the Bomber War, 1944-45". Book by John Nichol and Tony Rennell, 2006.

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“It would have been easier to fight alone with inadequate forces than to have to accept...responsibility for our ally's lack of fighting qualities and dubious loyalty.”
-- Albert Kesselring

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“To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.”

“We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.”

Source : "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.

“The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?”

Source : A. J. Muste's statement of 1941, as quoted in Howard Zinn "A People's History" (p. 416), 1980, and later quoted in Howard Zinn "The Twentieth Century: A People's History" (p. 159), May 9, 1984.

“Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.”

Source : A.J.P. Taylor (1996). “Origin Of The Second World War”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

“This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?”

“I don't think it's fair - you get married, you give your wife a wedding ring. I think you should give her a mood ring. Oh, it may sound crass, but just check the color when you come home. 'Hi honey. Infernal red? Oh boy, I ain't getting laid, and I gotta cut the lawn, I know it.'”

“I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.”

“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.”

“Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?"... "Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223"... "And pray, why would this number interest us?" "It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'.”

“A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.”