World War Ii Quotes - Page 3

• The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.

  James Forrestal

  Military, War, Mean

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• The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat!

  Erwin Rommel

  War, Water, Enemy

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• History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.

  Henry L. Stimson

  War, People, World

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• The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilisation.

  Winston Churchill

  Christian, War, Civilization

  "Churchill: The blood sweat and tears behind his finest hour speech" by Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2010.

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• Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Boys, Presidential

  Speech, Boston, Mass., 30 Oct. 1940 See Lyndon Johnson 9

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• Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Taken, Army

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• The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Hands, World

  Address at University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., 10 June 1940

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• I'm an immigrant to the U.S., and I've constantly been thinking about America both from the inside and from the outside. And I've come to believe that we're living at a critical time when the American Dream is in jeopardy and this American Era which began after World War II might be winding down.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Dream, War, Believe

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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  World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Military, War, Division

  Marshall McLuhan (2015). “Culture Is Our Business”, p.66, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Soldiers of the Reich! This day, you are to take part in an offensive of such importance that the whole future of the war may depend on its outcome.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Soldier, World

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• During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.

  Simon Sinek

  War, Loss, Pilots

  "Look Forward: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• I will be remembered when I'm in heaven. People won't remember my name, but they will know the photographer who did that picture of that nurse being kissed by the sailor at the end of World War II. Everybody remembers that.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  War, Names, Nurse

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• I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring

  Benito Mussolini

  War, People, World

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• However, there is a fundamental difference between the issue related to Japan's history and our negotiations with China. What is it all about? The Japanese issue resulted from World War II and is stipulated in the international instruments on the outcomes of World War II, while our discussions on border issues with our Chinese counterparts have nothing to do with World War II or any other military conflicts. This is the first, or rather, I should say, the second point.

  Vladimir Putin

  Military, War, Japan

  Source: thesaker.is

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• World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

  Herman Kahn

  War, Race, World

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• World War II proves there's no God.

  Penn Jillette

  War, World, Prove

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

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• I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after the War did I see that we, like the Nazis, had committed atrocities... Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, my own bombing missions. And when I studied history after the War, I learned from reading on my own, not from my university classes, about the history of U.S. expansion and imperialism.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Reading, Air

  "Zinn Speaks". Interview with Wajahat Ali, www.counterpunch.org. April 19, 2008.

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• Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.

  Adolf Galland

  War, Airplane, World

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• Growing up during World War II certainly affected my whole view of life, but I hardly know how, it goes so deep. What's hard to explain now is that, though we were never invaded, and bombed only once and ineffectively on the coast of Oregon, everybody in the country was in that war. Everything we did was influenced by it - eating, traveling, dressing, thinking - everything in daily life.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Growing Up, War

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• World War II was the last government program that really worked.

  George Will

  Peace, War, Government

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• I think war and armed conflict is always the last of all the options you have on the table. I think you try to avoid that at all costs. Sometimes it's unavoidable. That's the lesson of World War II. I think the other lesson of the last 50 or 60 years, however, is that, the stronger the U.S. military, the stronger our defense capabilities, the stronger the chances for peace are.

  Marco Rubio

  Military, War, Thinking

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. October 21, 2012.

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• The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap. The 2011 military budget - almost matching that of the rest of the world combined - is higher in real terms than at any time since World War II and is slated to go even higher .

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Military, Real

  Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.62, Metropolitan Books

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• My plan is based on growing the economy, giving middle-class families many more opportunities. I want us to have the biggest jobs program since World War II, jobs in infrastructure and advanced manufacturing.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, War, Opportunity

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved something I could identify with.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, World, Ends

  "The World According to Zbig". Interview with Charles Gati, www.politico.com. November 27, 2013.

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• That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  War, Views, Europe

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