History Quotes / HomeByChristmas

-->-- '''Kaiser Wilhelm II''' to German soldiers, 1914

->''"When do you suppose the war will start?" he said. "I notice your husbands aren't here tonight?"
->"Oh, they come and go, come and go," said Mrs. Phelps. "In again out again Finnegan, the Army called Pete yesterday. He'll be back next week. The Army said so. Quick war. Forty-eight hours they said, and everyone home. That's what the Army said. Quick war. Pete was called yesterday and they said he'd be, back next week. Quick..."''

->''The plan, like so many plans in so many wars before it, was meant to end the fighting by Christmas, and bring the boys back home.''

->"When do you suppose the war will start?" he said. "I notice your husbands aren't here tonight?"
->"Oh, they come and go, come and go," said Mrs. Phelps. "In again out again Finnegan, the Army called Pete yesterday. He'll be back next week. The Army said so. Quick war. Forty-eight hours they said, and everyone home. That's what the Army said. Quick war. Pete was called yesterday and they said he'd be, back next week. Quick..."

->''All we have to do is kick in the door, and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.''

'''Mr. Sorlle''': The war is not over. Millions are being killed. Europe is mad. The world is mad.

->''We have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It's going to be just fine.''
-->-- '''President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump''' on the coronavirus, January 22, 2020

-->-- Dread Empress Regalia II, shortly before initiating the Sixty Years War, ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil''

-->-- '''President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump''' on the coronavirus, January 22, 2020

-->-- '''President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump''' on the COVID-19 virus, January 22, 2020

-->-- President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump on the COVID-19 virus, January 22, 2020

-->-- Opening narration of ''Film/ABridgeTooFar'', describing Operation Market Garden

->“Mark my words, the Imperial banner will be flying above Summerholm by midsummer.”
-->-- Dread Empress Regalia II, shortly before initiating the Sixty Years War, ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil''

-->-- ''Literature/Fahrenheit451''

-->-- '''Albert Sidney Johnston''' to Confederate troops before the Battle of Shiloh, April 6th, 1862, in which Johnston was killed.

-->-- ''Series/{{Blackadder}} goes Forth'', set during WWI.

[''George does so. Blackadder throws it above the trench line, [[{{Deconstruction}} machine gun fire almost completely decimates it]], it falls back into Blackadder's hands'']

-->-- '''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler''', shortly before the commencement of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union.

-->-- '''[[UsefulNotes/RedsWithRockets Red Army]] joke''' upon the conclusion of the Winter War.

-->-- '''NapoleonBonaparte''' to one of his marshals just before the Battle of Waterloo

-->-- '''AdolfHitler''', shortly before the commencement of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union

-->-- '''Robert Wilson Lynd'''

-->-- '''Creator/GeorgeOrwell''', ''Literature/HomageToCatalonia''

-->-- '''Creator/GeorgeOrwell''', ''HomageToCatalonia''

->''"Just because you have been beaten by Wellington, you think he is a good general. I tell you that Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad troops and this affair is no more than eating breakfast."''

->''"Months earlier, when Siétamo was taken, the general commanding the Government troops had said gaily: 'Tomorrow we'll have coffee in Huesca.' It turned out that he was mistaken. There had been bloody attacks, but the town did not fall, and 'Tomorrow we'll have coffee in Huesca' became a standing joke throughout the army. If I ever go back to Spain I shall make a point of having a cup of coffee in Huesca."''
-->-- '''GeorgeOrwell''', ''HomageToCatalonia''