Well, that didn’t age well.
“We have met the enemy, and he is ours.”
Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet!
“Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.”
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.”
“They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist–”
“Then we shall fight in the shade.”
“Air raid, Pearl Harbor. This is no drill”
“¡Al suelo todo el mundo! ¡Se sienten, coño!”
“Publish and be damned!”
“As God is my witness, he is broken in half!”
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
“Small boys attack!”
“Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans”
“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.”
I thought it was … seen the enemy, and he is us" from comic Pogo?
I was quoting Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, the hero of the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812. Pogo appropriated the orginial,
“Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”
“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.”
“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*****”
Challenger, you are go at throttle-up…