Personal Favourite: Around 350 BC, King Philip II of Macedon invaded and conquered much of Greece. Although he conquered much of the land, he hadn't yet conquered Sparta, before he started his invasion, he sent a message to the Spartans, “If I win this war, you will be slaves forever, if once I enter into your territories, I will destroy ye all, never to rise again.”....The Spartans sent back a single word reply, that is said to have sent shivers down King Phillip's back, "If".
Thomas Torsvik Save yourself some time and just do knuckle push-ups on a bed of hot coals so you can keep a closer eye on your steak. Also, a Wolverine or highly venomous snake on your back for the push-ups seems about right.
It’s cool, but it’s false. According to the Brits present, he actually said something like “it is every soldier’s duty to follow the orders of his commander”.
Here's a pretty bad-ass one: I am the punishment of God…If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you. - Genghis Khan
Sal Cusmano I honestly don't think gengis khan would have said that but I know one he did say that is lesser known judge your self not by the strength and cunning of your allies but by that of your enemies for they will have a hand in shaping your image
While it is true that the bullet pierced his speech papers, it also struck the case to his glasses (which was made of metal). Still, that doesn't take away the fact that Roosevelt gave a 90 minute speech with a bleeding hole in his chest. He would have gone on longer, but his handlers were insistent. He carried that bullet in him until his dying day. As for a quote of my own, here's one from Private First Class Edward H. Ahrens. During WWII, Private Ahrens found himself defending an attempt by the Japanese to infiltrate Allied lines. By himself. He was found that morning with ammo spent and Japanese troops dead on the ground. Upon realizing he had been found by friendly units, he managed these words prior to expiring: "The bastards tried to come over me last night. I guess they didn't know I was a Marine."
what about (cant remember his name) but during the battle of waterloo one of wellingtons advisors had his leg blown of and was left standing and just said "well sir it appears my leg has been blown off" or something along the lines of that and considering he was calm thats ballsy
Manliest thing I’ve ever heard is when I saw a lad get knocked of his bike and he had 2 compound fractures in his leg and all he said was “I think I might need a couple of stitches in them”
What about the Marine Corps Quote that was said in world war one. When marines were outside a heavily defended forest the french said we should retreat. Then the Marine said "Retreat, hell I just got here" after that the marines tool that forest.
+david fearnall My God the French army said retreat just because the French were there doesn't mean they didn't fight. At Belalu woods (I don't know how to spell it and I am sorry)
Get Some Gaming ok i apologise and the french didnt want to retreat there defences were battered and beat through no french soldier ever said we shiuld retreat
+david fearnall OK it is a common miss conception that the French surrendered and no offence but you spelled should wrong. and we aren't really told the French were battered. But hey thanks for not making a huge deal about it.
one of my favorites... The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. Norman Schwarzkopf (not sure if this is the correct spelling of his name)
its a pretty common one, Rommel said "shed sweat, not blood" (also "Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both.”") and patton said "a pint of sweat saves a pint of blood"
My favorite quote of all time is the one by Richard Francis Burton, "Do what they manhood bids thee do from none but self expect applause, he noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws."
***** no, I think learned it from a mind trap card when I was like 8. What was really odd in your narrative was that you normally give measurements in metric units, but here you said -40° Fahrenheit AND that's the one temp they cross at. P.S. Good morning to you in Prague.
***** me too. In school we used metric - and ONLY metric because they swore America was gonna change - and everywhere else we used the English system. Unless we were working on one of the newer cars, then we had to use metric wrenches and sockets.
Union General Phillip Sheridan, raised a toast to Confederate troops, when they shot at him knocking his flask out of his hand he replied to this by saying "That was damn ungenerous! I shall take those guns for that!" And he did.
'For myself, I am resolved to make a stand within the castle and to die a quick death. It would not take much trouble to break through a part of their numbers and escape, no matter how many tens of thousands of horsemen approached for the attack or by how many columns we were surrounded. But that is not the true meaning of being a warrior, and it would be difficult to account as loyalty. Rather, I will stand off the forces of the entire country here, and, without even one one-hundredth of the men necessary to do so, will throw up a defense and die a resplendent death. By doing so I will show that to abandon a castle that should be defended, or to value one's life so much as to avoid danger and to show the enemy one's weakness is not within the family traditions of my master Ieyasu.' ~ Torii Mototada, in a letter to his son. The whloe letter is pretty badass. His died defending his fortress 1 to 8. The castle had not been breached untill only a dozen or so deferners remained.
USMC Col. "Chesty" Puller during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, made the famous quote, "We've been looking for the enemy for some time now. We've finally found him. We're surrounded. That simplifies things."
General George S. Patton was a badass quote machine, disappointed he didn't make the list. My personal favorite: "May god have mercy on my enemies, because I won't."
Seems most of them are related to war, but these are some I think should have been in there. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: "Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die." Theodore Roosevelt: "Speak softly and carry a big stick." Theodore Roosevelt Jr.: "We'll start the war from right here!" Ghengis Kahn: “I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.” Sargent Major Daniel Daly: "Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?" And one last one. Ghandi: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
"What do you think the Alps are? They are nothing more than high mountains, and no height is insurmountable to men of determination" -Hannibal Barca In 218, during the second Punic war(218-201), Hannibal Barca planned on climbing and marching through the Alps to get to the Italian peninsula to continue his war with Rome, he had between forty thousand to fifty thousand men, and about forty war elephants. This was his quote of inspiration before his soldiers began the journey up the Alps.
At a recent NHL allstar game goalie Tim Thomas and forward Alex Ovechkin were doing practice shots. The two got fancy and reckless when after one move Thomas blocked a shot but accidentally sent Ovechkin flying into the boards. Worried that he may have injured him he want and asked of he was ok to which Ovechkin replied "Russian machine never breaks".
Howard Gilmore, commander of the USS Growler. "Take her down!" He was mortally wounded on the conning tower while being attacked by Japanese destroyers, and ordered the sub to submerge despite him being unable to make it back inside.
2nd Battalion 5th Marines is the most highly decorated battalion in the Marine Corps and their motto, "Retreat, Hell!", comes from the French trenches of World War I, when a Marine officer named Lloyd W. Williams was ordered to retreat and replied, "Retreat? Hell, we just got here!"
My fav quotes:Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way. - My men don’t surrender. I don’t want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back. - The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.
Simon You should do a segment on Nicholas Winston who didn't even tell his wife that he had saved over 600 children during WW2. He was told one night that he was going to a theater event when someone walked on stage and said "Would all those here tonight who are alive because Winston saved them during WW2 please stand. Winston who was sitting in the first row looked behind him to see everyone in the theater of hundreds had stood. What an extra ordinary story of a man who didn't have to speak at all of his heroism. His actions spoke for themselves. Bye the way most who stood were children of the children he saved. Mr Winston lived tho 104.
Today at school Me: Sir would you like to have a table tennis match Sports sir: Only 5 minutes left for the bell to ring Me: Sir 5 minutes is enough to defeat you Sir: I like this confidence give me your timings and i will have a set Me: OK sir on Sunday at recess time
You missed General Anthony McAuliffe''s single word reply to the German surrender demand. In the Battle of the Bulge The General's unit found itself completely surrounded, low on supplies, and very little prospect of rescue. He got a message from the German commander asking him to surrender. He replied with just one word: "Nuts!"
-Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advise. -We live, not the way we want, but anyway we can.. -Menander -Nemo vir est qui Mundum non reddat milliorem -Waste no time arguing how a good man should be. Be one - Marcus Aurelius
Love this video :) it would've been easy just to quote Duke Nukem but you chose the wiser and more interesting path!!! Also great to hear bad ass sayings from the Japanese during WWII to balance out the atrocities they did. Most of my Japanese friends are wonderful people
Sir Philip Sydney, dying painfully of a gangrenous wound, passed his last water bottle to another wounded man with the words, "Thy need is greater that my own."
while this comes from a movie and I don't know If it was truly said but in the end of the film black hawk down as the actor playing SGT eversman as he is talking to the body of a CPL Smith he says "no one has to be a hero it just sometimes turns out that way" this has been my favorite quote since I first saw black hawk down. and it true no one has to be a hero, but sometimes doing ones duty turns out that way. like I said though this is from a movie it still holds true because CPL Smith was a real soldier who gave his life doin his duty.
I think that the reason T.R. gave his speech after having been shot may have less to do with "manliness" than an element of depression with which he struggled all of his adult life. "I came, I saw, I conquered." "If". "Greater love hath no man...." "Divide your force and attack in both directions." "I regret that I have but one life to give for my Country." Etc.
"I have not yet begun to fight!" …..I think John Paul Jones is a very underappreciated historical figure. There was a movie made about him starring Robert Stack (c. 1960's). How historically accurate the movie is, is of course debatable. Other than that, I find relatively little information (on the internet) about the father of the U.S. Navy, hero of the U.S. Revolutionary War, and even (through diplomatic contract) served under Catherine The Great.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour'. - Winston Churchill
“Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!” Martin Luther
+Charlie Mills I get what you mean, all these politicians being brave talking about war, and killing. yet most never been to war or ever serve in the military. I guess good men in politics all died already.
Well, with Churchill keep in mind that we're talking about the imminent invasion of the homeland where you're going to need not just regular soldiers, but resistance fighters in the street. I think of Dunkirk, where civilians went out in their boats and helped to rescue their soldiers trapped on the beach. In that context, yeah, might have been a politician saying it, but still pretty badass. Also, Teddy Roosevelt is a certified badass by any measure.
Read up on Churchill. He fought in the Cavalry and had an injured shoulder. Instead of swinging a saber, he wielded a pistol. An enemy soldier jumped on Churchill's stead behind him to dispatch Winston. Winston buried his pistol in the man's ribs and shot him off his horse. He knew a little about the fight.
' However it may be for others, for us of the Citizen Army there is but one ideal - an Ireland ruled, and owned, by Irish men and women, sovereign and independent from the centre to the sea, and flying its own flag outward over the oceans ' James Connolly
+Cathal O'Maoilste Certainly patriotic, and I applaud the sentiment, but manly? I think there has to be a certain almost suicidal stubbornness (or stupidity, if you will) for it to qualify as manly. :D
+Kenneth Pryde how about this one; "Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" Sergeant Major Daniel Joseph "Dan" Daly the Battle of Belleau Wood in World War I?
Do what is right because it is right, and leave it alone. That is a world changing quote.
I think one Churchill quote is a bit better in my opinion. "Do you have any enemies? Good! That means you stood up for yourself once in your life."
This is perfect
Churchill was an awesome quote factory.
My fave was always "yes, but in the morning i will be sober, and you will still be ugly"
i like George Patton's quote "May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t."
"War is not about dying for your country. It's about making the other sonnovabitch die for his country!"
Patton was great!
That quote actually came from the inept US Army Civil War General Joseph Hooker, and was applied to Robert E. Lee.
Personal Favourite:
Around 350 BC, King Philip II of Macedon invaded and conquered much of Greece. Although he conquered much of the land, he hadn't yet conquered Sparta, before he started his invasion, he sent a message to the Spartans, “If I win this war, you will be slaves forever, if once I enter into your territories, I will destroy ye all, never to rise again.”....The Spartans sent back a single word reply, that is said to have sent shivers down King Phillip's back, "If".
+Reece Wilkins
Υeap, I was thinking of that too.. Αν!
Or an ancient saying, the spartans do not ask how many but where they are.
+Reece Wilkins Shame that king philip succeed in his conquest of Sparta. Kinda negates the whole badassness of it.
+Jordan Pfaff it doesn't really badassment is it's own thing wether it succeeds or not
+Vlad Flaucher That's the truth right there.
I suddently want to do push-ups while grilling a steak.
Thomas Torsvik Save yourself some time and just do knuckle push-ups on a bed of hot coals so you can keep a closer eye on your steak. Also, a Wolverine or highly venomous snake on your back for the push-ups seems about right.
I just did.
I like Nathan Hale's quote. "My only regret is that I have but 1 life to give for my country" or something like that.
+TopTenz your a awesome youtuber
It’s cool, but it’s false. According to the Brits present, he actually said something like “it is every soldier’s duty to follow the orders of his commander”.
Number one is probably the greatest quote that I have never before heard. That is truly manly and awesomely noble
at the battle of thermopylae the Persians demanded that the Greeks surrender their weapons, king Leonidas responded saying "come and take them"
+Siamesejake
molon labe
Siamesejake don't forget "THIS IS SPARTA!!!"
Here's a pretty bad-ass one:
I am the punishment of God…If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you. - Genghis Khan
Sal Cusmano I honestly don't think gengis khan would have said that but I know one he did say that is lesser known judge your self not by the strength and cunning of your allies but by that of your enemies for they will have a hand in shaping your image
This was most needed. Thank you.
"NUTS"
~Anthony McAullife's response to Germans at Bastogne, 1944
Lol yeah
That was badass.
Sergeant Major Daniel Joseph "Dan" Daly, "Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?". the Battle of Belleau Wood, WWI.
That one is pretty intense considering a lot of those guys probably did die.
While it is true that the bullet pierced his speech papers, it also struck the case to his glasses (which was made of metal). Still, that doesn't take away the fact that Roosevelt gave a 90 minute speech with a bleeding hole in his chest. He would have gone on longer, but his handlers were insistent. He carried that bullet in him until his dying day.
As for a quote of my own, here's one from Private First Class Edward H. Ahrens. During WWII, Private Ahrens found himself defending an attempt by the Japanese to infiltrate Allied lines. By himself. He was found that morning with ammo spent and Japanese troops dead on the ground. Upon realizing he had been found by friendly units, he managed these words prior to expiring: "The bastards tried to come over me last night. I guess they didn't know I was a Marine."
General Anthony McAuliffe, when asked to surrender during the Battle of The Bulge during WW2: "Nuts"
I don't eat honey, I chew bees.
I have to admit these videos have the best comments and I thank you for that. Also Simon 10/10 responses!
what about (cant remember his name) but during the battle of waterloo one of wellingtons advisors had his leg blown of and was left standing and just said "well sir it appears my leg has been blown off" or something along the lines of that and considering he was calm thats ballsy
Manliest thing I’ve ever heard is when I saw a lad get knocked of his bike and he had 2 compound fractures in his leg and all he said was “I think I might need a couple of stitches in them”
Lloyd W. Williams was ordered to retreat and replied, "Retreat? Hell, we just got here!"
*"Death shall lay me low too, but before he strikes I am resolved upon Great Deeds!"* - loosely based on dialogue spoken by Achilles in the _Iliad_
What about the Marine Corps Quote that was said in world war one. When marines were outside a heavily defended forest the french said we should retreat. Then the Marine said "Retreat, hell I just got here" after that the marines tool that forest.
marines werent in france
+david fearnall My God the French army said retreat just because the French were there doesn't mean they didn't fight. At Belalu woods (I don't know how to spell it and I am sorry)
Get Some Gaming ok i apologise and the french didnt want to retreat there defences were battered and beat through no french soldier ever said we shiuld retreat
+david fearnall OK it is a common miss conception that the French surrendered and no offence but you spelled should wrong. and we aren't really told the French were battered. But hey thanks for not making a huge deal about it.
+Get Some Gaming damn phone messing up my writing
Wow, that took some balls! Way to go, Mr. Sugihara (or however it's spelled)!
I don't know that much Japanese, so I apologize if that's spelt incorrectly!
Elizabeththegreatest "Do what's right because it is right. Leave me alone." For that you are immortalised in our memories.
I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and a king of England too
-Queen Elizabeth 1
one of my favorites...
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
Norman Schwarzkopf
(not sure if this is the correct spelling of his name)
its a pretty common one, Rommel said "shed sweat, not blood" (also "Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both.”")
and patton said "a pint of sweat saves a pint of blood"
My favorite quote of all time is the one by Richard Francis Burton, "Do what they manhood bids thee do from none but self expect applause, he noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws."
-40° is the same in Fahrenheit and Celsius. It's the only temperature that the two scales cross.
***** no, I think learned it from a mind trap card when I was like 8. What was really odd in your narrative was that you normally give measurements in metric units, but here you said -40° Fahrenheit AND that's the one temp they cross at.
P.S. Good morning to you in Prague.
***** me too. In school we used metric - and ONLY metric because they swore America was gonna change - and everywhere else we used the English system. Unless we were working on one of the newer cars, then we had to use metric wrenches and sockets.
what is bizarre is that -40 is also the point at which mercury freezes.
That comment is cold.
How about top 10 [instances of] famous/infamous last words?
My favorite is by General Anthony McAuliffe, US Army. "Nuts!"
Union General Phillip Sheridan, raised a toast to Confederate troops, when they shot at him knocking his flask out of his hand he replied to this by saying "That was damn ungenerous! I shall take those guns for that!" And he did.
"Come on, you sons of b******, do you want to live forever?" - Daniel Daly
Brock Lesnar giving an F-5 to a shark should be forever remembered as the best advert ever
+MrGamingUnicorn It's not as badass as Mike Haggar giving a tornado pile-driver to a shark.
"As long as they pretend to pay me I will pretend to work." Russian postal employee. Hunt for Red October.
One of the reasons i LOVE history... i occasionally find a new hero... #1 is IT... i have never heard of this man before... THANK YOU!
"I ain't got time to bleed"
awesome video!!
"Do what is right because it is right" can be very effective sometimes if someone is there to take it on.
Hillaries quote on reaching base camp after conquering Everest was even better "We've knocked the bugger off"
'For myself, I am resolved to make a stand within the castle and to die a quick death. It would not take much trouble to break through a part of their numbers and escape, no matter how many tens of thousands of horsemen approached for the attack or by how many columns we were surrounded.
But that is not the true meaning of being a warrior, and it would be difficult to account as loyalty. Rather, I will stand off the forces of the entire country here, and, without even one one-hundredth of the men necessary to do so, will throw up a defense and die a resplendent death. By doing so I will show that to abandon a castle that should be defended, or to value one's life so much as to avoid danger and to show the enemy one's weakness is not within the family traditions of my master Ieyasu.' ~ Torii Mototada, in a letter to his son. The whloe letter is pretty badass. His died defending his fortress 1 to 8. The castle had not been breached untill only a dozen or so deferners remained.
USMC Col. "Chesty" Puller during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, made the famous quote, "We've been looking for the enemy for some time now. We've finally found him. We're surrounded. That simplifies things."
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General George S. Patton was a badass quote machine, disappointed he didn't make the list. My personal favorite:
"May god have mercy on my enemies, because I won't."
they took our jooobs. ... Darrell Weathers 😁
Semper Fidelis (Always faithful) - Every marine in U.S. history.
Thanks for this, sharing.
Seems most of them are related to war, but these are some I think should have been in there.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: "Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die."
Theodore Roosevelt: "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.: "We'll start the war from right here!"
Ghengis Kahn: “I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.”
Sargent Major Daniel Daly: "Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?"
And one last one.
Ghandi: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
"What do you think the Alps are? They are nothing more than high mountains, and no height is insurmountable to men of determination"
-Hannibal Barca
In 218, during the second Punic war(218-201), Hannibal Barca planned on climbing and marching through the Alps to get to the Italian peninsula to continue his war with Rome, he had between forty thousand to fifty thousand men, and about forty war elephants. This was his quote of inspiration before his soldiers began the journey up the Alps.
Veni, vidi, vici.
At a recent NHL allstar game goalie Tim Thomas and forward Alex Ovechkin were doing practice shots. The two got fancy and reckless when after one move Thomas blocked a shot but accidentally sent Ovechkin flying into the boards. Worried that he may have injured him he want and asked of he was ok to which Ovechkin replied "Russian machine never breaks".
Howard Gilmore, commander of the USS Growler. "Take her down!" He was mortally wounded on the conning tower while being attacked by Japanese destroyers, and ordered the sub to submerge despite him being unable to make it back inside.
"Leave off the punchline and make it a sitcom" John Cleese
"They are ours, or tonight, Molly Stark sleeps a widow!" - General John Stark
I came, I saw, I conquered.
2nd Battalion 5th Marines is the most highly decorated battalion in the Marine Corps and their motto, "Retreat, Hell!", comes from the French trenches of World War I, when a Marine officer named Lloyd W. Williams was ordered to retreat and replied, "Retreat? Hell, we just got here!"
My fav quotes:Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way. - My men don’t surrender. I don’t want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back. - The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.
Simon You should do a segment on Nicholas Winston who didn't even tell his wife that he had saved over 600 children during WW2. He was told one night that he was going to a theater event when someone walked on stage and said "Would all those here tonight who are alive because Winston saved them during WW2 please stand. Winston who was sitting in the first row looked behind him to see everyone in the theater of hundreds had stood. What an extra ordinary story of a man who didn't have to speak at all of his heroism. His actions spoke for themselves. Bye the way most who stood were children of the children he saved. Mr Winston lived tho 104.
Today at school
Me: Sir would you like to have a table tennis match
Sports sir: Only 5 minutes left for the bell to ring
Me: Sir 5 minutes is enough to defeat you
Sir: I like this confidence give me your timings and i will have a set
Me: OK sir on Sunday at recess time
***** In UAE sunday is school day Friday and Saturday aare holidays
DUDE, this got my amped!!!!
You missed General Anthony McAuliffe''s single word reply to the German surrender demand. In the Battle of the Bulge The General's unit found itself completely surrounded, low on supplies, and very little prospect of rescue. He got a message from the German commander asking him to surrender. He replied with just one word: "Nuts!"
-Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advise.
-We live, not the way we want, but anyway we can.. -Menander
-Nemo vir est qui Mundum non reddat milliorem
-Waste no time arguing how a good man should be. Be one - Marcus Aurelius
*****
manliness as I perceive it :)
''We're surrounded...that simplifies our problem.''
Love this video :) it would've been easy just to quote Duke Nukem but you chose the wiser and more interesting path!!! Also great to hear bad ass sayings from the Japanese during WWII to balance out the atrocities they did. Most of my Japanese friends are wonderful people
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
Otto von Bismarck
Being a Lithuanian it's nice to see my little country featured in one of more popular youtube channel's videos :)
+Marius Grabauskas The Russians are coming! :-o
"The strong did what they could, and the weak suffered what they must."
-Thucydides
#1 was perfect, great man.
"Nothing happened" - Roronoa Zoro
"Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction." Gen. Oliver P. Smith during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.
Sir Philip Sydney, dying painfully of a gangrenous wound, passed his last water bottle to another wounded man with the words, "Thy need is greater that my own."
I'm not giving you my goddamn briefcase.-William DFENS Foster.
while this comes from a movie and I don't know If it was truly said but in the end of the film black hawk down as the actor playing SGT eversman as he is talking to the body of a CPL Smith he says
"no one has to be a hero it just sometimes turns out that way"
this has been my favorite quote since I first saw black hawk down. and it true no one has to be a hero, but sometimes doing ones duty turns out that way. like I said though this is from a movie it still holds true because CPL Smith was a real soldier who gave his life doin his duty.
I prefer Terry Pratchetts take on number 4 "Today is a good day for someone else to die" may not be as butch but it's altogether more sensible.
I think that the reason T.R. gave his speech after having been shot may have less to do with "manliness" than an element of depression with which he struggled all of his adult life.
"I came, I saw, I conquered." "If". "Greater love hath no man...." "Divide your force and attack in both directions." "I regret that I have but one life to give for my Country." Etc.
"I have not yet begun to fight!" …..I think John Paul Jones is a very underappreciated historical figure. There was a movie made about him starring Robert Stack (c. 1960's). How historically accurate the movie is, is of course debatable. Other than that, I find relatively little information (on the internet) about the father of the U.S. Navy, hero of the U.S. Revolutionary War, and even (through diplomatic contract) served under Catherine The Great.
Churchill's quote so manly Iron Maiden used it as their intro to aces high
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour'. - Winston Churchill
"Vini Vidi Vici" or "I came, I saw, I conquered". I believe it was someone from Ancient Rome
+TopTenz I thought so. Thanks for the reply. Love your Videos
I like Brock lesnar's quote when asked how much he could bench press:
"WHATEVER I WANT"
“Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!” Martin Luther
The Japanese at the top should have made a biopic about him - he was really a hero.
"Pain don't hurt" Patrick Swazey - Roadhouse
Sugihara, what a awesome guy.
"It bleeds, we can kill it." ~ Arnie
One of my favourite manly quote comes from a fictional characters, Dirty Harry, " A man's gotta know his limitations."
"DiBernardo, you only need to be ten percent smarter than the equipment you work with." Ssgt Tucker.
"Everyone has a plan until you get punched in the face" Iron Mike Tyson
"I drank what?!?"-Socrates
Damn, Simon... why'd you have to serve that #1 with onions?
I always say manly things before I send other people to fight wars for me.
+Charlie Mills well it depends back in the day most leaders went to war with their troops.
+Charlie Mills I get what you mean, all these politicians being brave talking about war, and killing. yet most never been to war or ever serve in the military. I guess good men in politics all died already.
Well, with Churchill keep in mind that we're talking about the imminent invasion of the homeland where you're going to need not just regular soldiers, but resistance fighters in the street. I think of Dunkirk, where civilians went out in their boats and helped to rescue their soldiers trapped on the beach. In that context, yeah, might have been a politician saying it, but still pretty badass.
Also, Teddy Roosevelt is a certified badass by any measure.
Read up on Churchill. He fought in the Cavalry and had an injured shoulder. Instead of swinging a saber, he wielded a pistol. An enemy soldier jumped on Churchill's stead behind him to dispatch Winston. Winston buried his pistol in the man's ribs and shot him off his horse. He knew a little about the fight.
homefrontforge the pistol he used was a german mauser broom handle
"We are going to start the war from right here" - Theodore Roosevelt Jr. on Utah beach June 6, 1944
I liked Patton’s “you don’t win a war by dying for your country-you win by making the other S.O.B die for his!” That’s not Manley, I just like it.
Ah yes, manly man manliness!!!
BRITISH MATTHEW SANTORO OMG!!!!!
im here for brock with the shark
SethX 132 Here comes the pain!
Wow. Just...,...wow.
I like the hungarian lords's exclamation for respond Maria Theresia's(hungarian queen) prayer for help to her:"with our life and our blood"
Look up 'Rhett and Link - Epic Rap Battle of Manliness'.
' However it may be for others, for us of the Citizen Army there is but one ideal - an Ireland ruled, and owned, by Irish men and women, sovereign and independent from the centre to the sea, and flying its own flag outward over the oceans ' James Connolly
+Cathal O'Maoilste Certainly patriotic, and I applaud the sentiment, but manly? I think there has to be a certain almost suicidal stubbornness (or stupidity, if you will) for it to qualify as manly. :D
+Kenneth Pryde how about this one; "Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" Sergeant Major Daniel Joseph "Dan" Daly the Battle of Belleau Wood in World War I?
Andrew Miller Yup. That qualifies. :D
I know it's fiction, "Bond, I've always tried to teach you two things: Always have a back-up plan." And the other? "Never let them see you bleed." Q.
Simon Whistler without your beard you remind me of Yule Brenner.
I love this channel and btw Simon, you had me at #5. Will you marry me Simon?