# Iconic Moments in History, in Just a Few Words **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 10, 2023, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290 "2023-06-10T15:14:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/41 "2023-06-17T00:33:06Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > “I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.” Well, that didn’t age well. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/42 "2023-06-17T00:43:46Z")
“We have met the enemy, and he is ours.” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/43 "2023-06-17T20:21:05Z")
Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/44 "2023-06-17T20:36:52Z")
“Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.” ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/45 "2023-06-17T21:06:22Z")
Three from the Battle of Belleau Wood, World War One: “For Christ’s sake, men—come on! Do you want to live forever?” 1st Sgt Daniel Daly “Retreat, Hell! We just got here!” Captain Lloyd W Williams Later, mortally wounded, he is said to have told the medics, “Don’t bother with me. Take care of my good men.” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/46 "2023-06-18T01:45:31Z")
“They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist–” “Then we shall fight in the shade.” ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/47 "2023-06-18T02:45:23Z")
“Air raid, Pearl Harbor. This is no drill” ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/48 "2023-06-18T07:22:53Z")
“¡Al suelo todo el mundo! ¡Se sienten, coño!” ---
**Author:** ![Nyvaak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Nyvaak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nyvaak)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/49 "2023-06-18T08:09:34Z")
“Publish and be damned!” ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/50 "2023-06-18T08:29:36Z")
“As God is my witness, he is broken in half!” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/51 "2023-06-18T15:50:28Z")
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/52 "2023-06-18T21:38:38Z")
“Small boys attack!” ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/53 "2023-06-18T22:37:39Z")
“Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans” ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/54 "2023-06-19T00:16:09Z")
“Tyson! Tyson! Tyson! Down goes Michaels!” “Finally, finally, my God, finally, Chris Benoit is the heavyweight champion of this world!” “Stone Cold has sold his soul to the Devil himself!” “It is my sad duty to announce that Owen Hart has died.” “That’ll put butts in the seats.” ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/55 "2023-06-19T06:15:42Z")
I thought it was … seen the enemy, and he is us" from comic Pogo? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/56 "2023-06-19T15:12:46Z")
I was quoting [Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Hazard_Perry), the hero of the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812. Pogo appropriated the orginial, ---
**Author:** ![mjmartin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3d9bf3/32.png) [@mjmartin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmartin)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/57 "2023-06-19T15:23:12Z")
“Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/58 "2023-06-19T16:03:49Z")
“Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/59 "2023-06-19T17:51:59Z")
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” “You may fire when ready, Gridley.” “I have reported what I saw & heard, but only part of it. For most of it I have no words. If I’ve offended you… I’m not in the least sorry.” “With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan ~ to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” '\*“I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me n\*\*\*\*\*” ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/60 "2023-06-19T20:11:16Z")
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