World War 2 Quotes

• They fought together as brothers in arms; they died together and now they sleep side by side. To them we have a solemn obligation.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Brother, War, Sleep

  Chester W. Nimitz's statement broadcast to the United States and the Pacific Fleet after ceremonies in Tokyo Bay accepting the official surrender of Japan, September 2, 1945.

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• Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, World, Praying

  Opening and Closing Statements at the Japanese Surrender Ceremony, delivered 2 September 1945, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan

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• United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Determination, War, Fighting

  Dwight D. Eisenhower (1948). “Crusade in Europe”

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• There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child-is in action, and will be privileged to remain in action throughout this war. That front is right here at home, in our daily lives, and in our daily tasks.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Children, War, Home

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• Our revenge is to live. We may be hunted like animals but we will not become animals. We have all chosen this - to live free, like human beings, for as long as we can. Each day of freedom is a victory. And if we die trying to live, at least we die like human beings.

  Tuvia Bielski

  Death, Revenge, Freedom

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• The world must know what happened, and never forget.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, World, Never Forget

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• The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is as necessary to us in our continuing forward movement toward final victory as it was vital to the enemy in staving off ultimate defeat.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  War, Marine, Islands

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• Today we rule Germany, tomorrow, the world.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, World, Today

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• War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

  Bertrand Russell

  Peace, Military, War

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• Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it.

  George S. Patton

  War, Home, Want

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, 4th Of July

  "Cavalry Journal", September 1933.

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• The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it.

  Ronald Speirs

  Hope, War, Acceptance

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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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• No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World, Malta

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Triumph and Tragedy”, p.295, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again, to others not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders.

  Yehuda Bauer

  Bystanders, Holocaust, May

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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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• Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.

  Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

  War, Cities, Soldier

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• WOMEN WHO STEPPED UP WERE MEASURED AS CITIZENS OF THE NATION, NOT AS WOMEN...THIS WAS A PEOPLE'S WAR, AND EVERYONE WAS IN IT.

  Oveta Culp Hobby

  War, Women, People

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• 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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• This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism

  Joseph Stalin

  War, People, Ordinary

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• I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Hate

  Speech in Ottawa on January 10, 1946. "Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches". Book edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels, 1948.

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• I believe it is peace for our time.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Peace, Time, War

  Neville Chamberlain's "Peace For Our Time" Speech in front of 10 Downing St., eudocs.lib.byu.edu. September 30, 1938.

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• No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan.

  George C. Marshall

  War, Japan, Victory

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• You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Choices, Politics

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “Memoral Addresses and Tributes”

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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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