Portal:Military history of Australia/Quotes archive

The Selected Quote will be changed on the 1st of each month.

List of quotes previously featured on the Military of Australia Portal:

"Fellow Australians

It is my melancholy duty to inform you officially that, in persistence by Germany in her invasion of Poland, Great Britain is at war, and that, as a result, Australia is also at war...

There was never any doubt as to where Great Britain stood... There can be no doubt that were Great Britain stands, there stands the people of the entire British world."

— Prime Minister Robert Menzies (20 April - 27 April 2006)

"My men are being unmercifully shelled. They cannot hold out if an attack is launched. The firing line and my headquarters are being plastered with heavy guns and the town is being swept by shrapnel. I myself am O.K. but the front line is being buried."

— Lieutenant General Henry Gordon Bennett, 26 July 1916. (27 April - 3 August 2006)

"Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the allies, it was the Australians who first broke the invincibility of the Japanese army."

— Field Marshal Sir William Slim. (3 August- 1 September 2006)

"Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!"

— Last words of Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant, said to his firing squad, 27 February 1902 (1 September - 5 October 2006)