World War Ii Quotes - Page 2

• We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Victory, D Day, World War 2

  Order of the Day, delivered 6 June 1944

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• It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  Isaac Asimov

  Veterans Day, Peace, War

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• Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Bridges, Cities

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• Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world.

  Charles de Gaulle

  War, Lying, Destiny

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• War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.

  Guy Sajer

  War, Soldier, Depth

  Guy Sajer (2000). “The Forgotten Soldier”, p.119, Potomac Books, Inc.

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• If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpses

  Joseph Goebbels

  War, Giving, Office

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• Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Veterans Day, Peace, Military

  Address to joint meeting of Congress, 19 Apr. 1951

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• Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.

  Benito Mussolini

  War, World, Individual

  Quoted in the Enciclopedia Italiana.

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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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• Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  War, Judging, Mind

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• John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  Isaac Asimov

  War, Records, World

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• The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.

  Benito Mussolini

  War, Italian, Lakes

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• When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!

  William Halsey

  Memorial Day, Military, War

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• December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Air Force, December

  Address to joint session of Congress asking for declaration of war on Japan, 8 Dec. 1941

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• How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Country, War, People

  Radio broadcast, 27 Sept. 1938

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• It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is a claim from which I will not recede and which, God willing, I will make good.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Europe, World

  Speech at Berlin Sportpalast, 26 Sept. 1938, in Max Domarus (ed.) Hitler: Reden und Proklamationen 1932-1945 (1962) p. 927

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• I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Enemy, World

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• We learned the value of research in World War II.

  Amar Bose

  War, Keys, History

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• I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Grace, Philippines

  Broadcast to Filipino people, 21 Oct. 1944

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• I did not believe in the war. I thought it was wrong to go into any war. And I got to the war, and saw the Germans, and I changed my mind. I decided we were right going into World War II.

  Andy Rooney

  War, Believe, Mind

  "Great lines from "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney". www.cnn.com. November 5, 2011.

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• We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  History, Presidential, Democracy

  Radio broadcast, 29 Dec. 1940. According to Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men (1986), this slogan was picked up for Roosevelt's address after it was used in conversation by John McCloy, who had gotten it from Jean Monnet.

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• During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit, and determination are immeasurable.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Determination, War, Skills

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• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

  Pat Paulsen

  Fear, Breast Cancer, Men

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• The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!

  Adolf Hitler

  War, World, Intention

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.

  David M. Shoup

  Military, Marine, Winning

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