Jean Larteguy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.

  • Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.

  • A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.

  • I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

  • Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

  • From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

  • Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.

  • All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

  • So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.

  • The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France

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