Bernard Law Montgomery cytaty (17 cytatów)

Bernard Law Montgomery: 17 cytatów1 Polubienie

Bernard Law Montgomery słynne cytaty

„Większą część życia spędziłem na walce z Niemcami i politykami. Z tymi pierwszymi walka była łatwiejsza…”

Źródło: Przemysław Słowiński, Sławni…, op. cit.

„Nie piję, nie palę, gimnastykuję się codziennie i jestem zawsze w stuprocentowej formie.”

Źródło: Melania Sobańska-Bondaruk, Stanisław Bogusław Lenard (oprac.), Wiek XX w źródłach, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2002, ISBN 8301127104, s. 243.

„Pułkowniku, jeżeli zamierza pan umierać, to lepiej teraz, gdy łatwo będzie pana zastąpić, aniżeli na początku bitwy, bo jak pan wie, wtedy z wymianą trudniej.”

Bernard Law Montgomery

do pułkownika, który tłumaczył się lekarzowi, że może go zabić zarządzony przez Montgomery’ego cotygodniowy bieg na siedem mil.
Źródło: Melania Sobańska-Bondaruk, Stanisław Bogusław Lenard (oprac.), Wiek XX w źródłach, op. cit., s. 243.

„Od pięćdziesięciu lat siedzę za kierownicą. Jeździłem najróżniejszymi pojazdami od El Alamein, gdzie rozbiłem Niemców, aż po Berlin. I nikt z tego powodu nie poniósł szkody, oczywiście oprócz Niemców…”

Bernard Law Montgomery

odwołanie do sądu, który wlepił mu grzywnę za jazdę w zakazanym kierunku.
Źródło: Przemysław Słowiński, Sławni ludzie w anegdocie, Videograf II, Katowice 2009, ISBN 9788371837272.

„Strategia Hannibala w Italii okazała się pomyłką. Jedyny raz, gdy Scypion i Hannibal stanęli twarzą w twarz, Scypion zwyciężył.”

Bernard Law Montgomery

Źródło: Nigel Cawthorne, Dowódcy i generałowie. Prawdziwe historie, Grupa Wydawnicza Foksal, Warszawa 2014, s. 16

„Jedyny człowiek, pod którym każdy generał służyłby z przyjemnością.”

Bernard Law Montgomery

o Haroldzie Alexandrze.
Źródło: Nigel Cawthorne, Dowódcy i generałowie. Prawdziwe historie, Grupa Wydawnicza Foksal, Warszawa 2014, s. 182.

„Od początku tej wielkiej wojny Anglicy śledzili, jak rosły wspaniałe kadry dowódcze Rosji. Jednym spośród pierwszych nazwisk, z którym się zapoznałem, było nazwisko marszałka Rokossowskiego. Niezależnie od komunikatów radiowych punktowały jego wspaniały szlak moskiewskie saluty. Ja sam przebiłem sobie drogę przez Afrykę i uczestniczyłem w wielu bitwach. Myślę jednak, że to, co osiągnąłem, nie dorównuje temu, co osiągnął marszałek Rokossowski. Wznoszę toast za marszałka Rokossowskiego.”

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o Konstantym Rokossowskim.
Źródło: W. Białkowski, Rokossowski – na ile Polak?, ISBN 837001755X, s. 73–78.

„Ilekroć w Izbie Lordów nasz kochany marszałek zabierze głos, to powstaje wrażenie, jakby osioł machną ogonem w najbardziej nieodpowiednim momencie.”

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komentarz z gazety „Times” dotyczący udziału Montgomery’ego w polityce po II wojnie światowej.
Źródło: Melania Sobańska-Bondaruk, Stanisław Bogusław Lenard (oprac.), Wiek XX w źródłach, op. cit., s. 368.

Bernard Law Montgomery: Cytaty po angielsku

“The United States has broken the second rule of war. That is: don't go fighting with your land army on the mainland in Asia. Rule One is, don't march on Moscow. I developed those two rules myself.”

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Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

Interview, 2 July, 1968; quoted in New York Times, 3 July, 1968, p. 6.

“Anyone who votes Labour ought to be locked up.”

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Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

Speech at Woodford, October 1959[citation needed]

“The British soldier is second to none in the communities of fighting men. Some may possess more élan, others may be better disciplined; but none excels him in all-round character. We require no training in bravery in Britain; we can trust to our own native manliness to see us through. So it is with the soldier. It is his natural pride which gives him his fighting qualities. How often he has stood firm before tyranny and oppression, the last hope of the free world! In the midst of the noise and confusion of the battlefield, the simple homely figure of the British soldier stands out calm and resolute—dominating all around him with his quiet courage, his humour and his cheerfulness, his unflinching acceptance of the situation. May the ideals for which he has struggled never vanish from the world! May he never be forgotten by the nation for which he has fought so nobly! I know better than most to what heights the British soldier can aspire. His greatness is a measure of the greatness of the British character, and I have seen the quality of our race proved again and again on the battlefield.”

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Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

Memoirs (London: Collins, 1958), pp. 543-544.

“Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow". Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good. That is the first rule. I do not know whether your Lordships will know Rule 2 of war. It is: "Do not go fighting with your land armies in China."”

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Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

It is a vast country, with no clearly defined objectives. <br class="br">In the House of Lords, 30 May 1962 ( Hansard, Col. 227 http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1962/may/30/the-army-estimates#S5LV0241P0-00791)

“There were many reasons why we did not gain complete success at Arnhem. The following in my view were the main ones. First. The operation was not regarded at Supreme Headquarters as the spearhead of a major Allied movement on the northern flank designed to isolate, and finally to occupy, the Ruhr - the one objective in the West which the Germans could not afford to lose. There is no doubt in my mind that Eisenhower always wanted to give priority to the northern thrust and to scale down the southern one. He ordered this to be done, and he thought that it was being done. It was not being done. Second. The airborne forces at Arnhem were dropped too far away from the vital objective - the bridge. It was some hours before they reached it. I take the blame for this mistake. I should have ordered Second Army and 1st Airborne Corps to arrange that at least one complete Parachute Brigade was dropped quite close to the bridge, so that it could have been captured in a matter of minutes and its defence soundly organised with time to spare. I did not do so. Third. The weather. This turned against us after the first day and we could not carry out much of the later airborne programme. But weather is always an uncertain factor, in war and in peace. This uncertainty we all accepted. It could only have been offset, and the operation made a certainty, by allotting additional resources to the project, so that it became an Allied and not merely a British project. Fourth. The 2nd S. S. Panzer Corps was refitting in the Arnhem area, having limped up there after its mauling in Normandy. We knew it was there. But we were wrong in supposing that it could not fight effectively; its battle state was far beyond our expectation. It was quickly brought into action against the 1st Airborne Division.”

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Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

Concerning Operation Market Garden in his autobiography, 'The Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery' (1958)

“Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.”

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Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

As quoted in Hearts Touched With Fire: My 500 Favorite Inspirational Quotations (2004) by Elizabeth Hanford Dole, p. 143

“I want to impose on everyone that the bad times are over, they are finished! Our mandate from the Prime Minister is to destroy the Axis forces in North Africa…It can be done, and it will be done!”

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Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

Said to his troops in North Africa, promising the swift defeat of Rommel[citation needed]