Normandy Quotes

• We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Years, Europe

  Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, delivered 6 June 1984 in Pointe Du Hoc, Normandy, France

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• there on the beaches of Normandy I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives were laced with the markings of greatness.

  Tom Brokaw

  Beach, Greatness, People

  Tom Brokaw (1998). “The Greatest Generation”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Prayer, Military, Eye

  1944 Despatch to US forces on D-Day, 6 Jun

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• The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or the next. It was the deep knowledge - and pray God we have not lost it - that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Differences, Profound

  Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, delivered 6 June 1984 in Pointe Du Hoc, Normandy, France

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• That road to V-E Day was hard and long, and traveled by weary and valiant men. And history will always record where that road began. It began here, with the first footprints on the beaches of Normandy.

  George W. Bush

  Beach, Sacrifice, Men

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• They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Fighting, Sacrifice, Lust

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Hero, Sacrifice

  Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, delivered 6 June 1984 in Pointe Du Hoc, Normandy, France

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• I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

  Yogi Berra

  Southern, Invasion, France

  "Serby's Sunday Q&A with Yogi Berra". nypost.com. June 26, 2008.

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• Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Badass, Eye, Soldier

  Order of the Day, 2 June 1944

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• All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?

  Studs Terkel

  Jobs, War, Book

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly", www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Beach, Military, War

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• It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic, came down to the battle for a slice of beach only six miles long and two miles wide.

  Barack Obama

  Beach, Sacrifice, Long

  "Obama on D-Day: 'The Evil We Faced Had to Be Stopped'" by Karen Travers, Jake Tapper, Sunlen Miller, abcnews.go.com. June 6, 2009.

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• The eyes of the world are upon you.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Eye, D Day, World

  Order of the Day, 2 June 1944

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• Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Fighting, Enemy

  Order of the Day, delivered 6 June 1944

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• I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.

  Charles Durning

  Real, Hero, Cemetery

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Good Luck, Ghetto, Sacrifice

  Address to the Officers and Men of the Third Armored Division, www.3ad.com. June 02, 1944.

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• If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Faults, D Day, Blame

  "The Speech Eisenhower Never Gave On The Normandy Invasion". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 08, 2013.

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• May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America, may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us.

  Cory Booker

  Beach, Fighting, Sacrifice

  "Brick Towers" by Cory Booker, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2005.

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• I tell people my breasts were made in Normandy from butter and creme fraiche.

  Laetitia Casta

  People, Made, Breasts

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• To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should all visit Normandy. We should pay homage to those brave Americans who stormed ashore at Omaha Beach and gave their lives for the freedom of others.

  Fatos Nano

  Beach, Names, Brave

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• Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.

  Mark Hoppus

  Mom, Beach, Dad

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• The height of human desire is what wins, whether it’s on Normandy Beach or in Ohio Stadium.

  Woody Hayes

  Beach, Winning, Ohio

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• I've read all the books, I've watched all the films and now, thanks to the glory of home gaming, I've even kind of experienced it: I've landed on the beaches of Normandy, I have successfully held Pegasus Bridge and I've disabled German tanks with stolen Panzerfausts. I have fought in Italy, France and North Africa and if I had a Euro for every virtual life I've lost I'd be able to build a replica of Hitler's bunker in my back garden.

  Tom Dunne

  Beach, Book, Home

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• We know that progress is not inevitable. But neither was victory upon these beaches. Now, as then, the inner voice tells us to stand up and move forward. Now, as then, free people must choose.

  William J. Clinton

  Beach, Moving, Sacrifice

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1994”, p.1046, Best Books on

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• It was very strange, because my father [ Erwin Rommel] received the first call at seven o'clock in the morning. And [Hans] Speidel told my father, "I will call you up in one hour when I see more clearly what's going on." After an hour, Speidel said, "Yes, the landing took place in Normandy." And the German Navy had told my father that it was too stormy. And that the British and the Americans and the French can't come. And my father believed him.

  Manfred Rommel

  Morning, Father, Navy

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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