World War 2 Quotes - Page 3

• I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Now, however we have a new experience. We have a victory - a remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Heart, New Experiences

  Winston Churchill (1953). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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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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• We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  People, History, Cost

  The Four Freedoms, delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)

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• Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

  John Paul Jones

  Uprising, Surprise, Conquer

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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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• Dunkirk has fallen... with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knew no bounds. You have not disappointed me.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Soldier, Battle

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• This is a fight between a free world and a slave world.

  Henry A. Wallace

  War, Fighting, World

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• A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

  Hans Frank

  War, Years, Holocaust

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• On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Crush, War, Army

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• They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Military, War, Son

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1942, Volume 11”, p.355, Best Books on

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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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• 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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• At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.

  Evelyn Waugh

  War, Half, World

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• The assault on Malta will cost us many casualties...but...I consider it absolutely essential for the future development of the war. If we take Malta, Libya will be safe.

  Ugo Cavallero

  War, Cost, Development

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• Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Airplane, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

  Statement on first use of atomic bomb in combat, 6 Aug. 1945

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• ...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire.

  David Irving

  Real, War, Men

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• The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.

  Benito Mussolini

  War, Italian, Lakes

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• (Mariners) have written one of its most brilliant chapters. They have delivered the goods when and where needed in every theater of operations and across every ocean in the biggest, the most difficult and dangerous job ever undertaken. As time goes on, there will be greater public understanding of our merchant's fleet record during this war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Jobs, War, Ocean

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• We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Victory, D Day, Wwii

  Order of the Day, delivered 6 June 1944

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• It would have been easier to fight alone with inadequate forces than to have to accept...responsibility for our ally's lack of fighting qualities and dubious loyalty.

  Albert Kesselring

  Loyalty, War, Responsibility

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• What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Dark, Greatest Victory

  Hansard 13 May 1940, col. 1502

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• Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.

  Ernst Hanfstaengl

  Military, Democracies Have, People

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• God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Fire, German History

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• My Luftwaffe is invincible... And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks?

  Hermann Goring

  Two, Long, Three

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• Our losses have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.

  Karl Donitz

  War, Loss, Air

  Said on May 24, 1943. "A Time for Courage: The Royal Air Force in the European War, 1939-1945". Book by John Terraine, p. 449, 1985.

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