World War 2 Quotes - Page 6

• Never in history has the navy landed an army at the planned time and place. But if you land us anywhere within 50 miles of Fedela and within 1 week of D-Day. I'll go ahead and win.

  George S. Patton

  War, Army, Winning

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• We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defense if fascist Germany risked attacking our country in defiance of the pact. This was a definite gain to our country and a loss for fascist Germany.

  Joseph Stalin

  Country, War, Loss

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• Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory.

  George VI

  War, Fighting, People

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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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• We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations

  Winston Churchill

  War, Victory, World

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one of the outstanding blunders of history, and the results so far realized constitute an event of cardinal importance in the final decision of the war.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Fighting, Russia

  "War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943".

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• If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the only safe way is to convince Hitler that he cannot beat us.

  Winston Churchill

  Giving Up, War, Jam

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• This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Children, War, Military

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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• We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old.

  Winston Churchill

  Memorial Day, Beach, Military

  Winston Churchill's speech to the House of Commons, history.hanover.edu. June 4, 1940.

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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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• Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

  Winston Churchill

  War, Moving, Fall

  Hansard 18 June 1940, col. 60

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• We are really doing our very best. There are no doubt many mistakes and shortcomings. A lot of things are done none too well. Some things that ought to be done have not yet been done...[But Britain's effort has] justly commanded the wonder and admiration of every friendly nation in the world.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Mistake, Effort

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• Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side, I were not to convey the true impression, that this great nation is getting into its war stride.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World, Sides

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• Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Jobs, Military

  Radio broadcast, 9 Feb. 1941

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• For a time, the Flying Tigers provided the only victories against the Japanese anywhere in the Far East... This handful of men had shown that the Japanese were not invincible.

  Duane P. Schultz

  War, Men, Flying

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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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• This is a sad day for all of us, and to none is it sadder than to me. Everything that I have worked for, everything that I have hoped for, everything that I have believed in during my public life, has crashed into ruins. There is only one thing left for me to do; that is, to devote what strength and powers I have to forwarding the victory of the cause for which we have to sacrifice so much... I trust I may live to see the day when Hitlerism has been destroyed and a liberated Europe has been re-established.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Sacrifice, Europe, Victory

  Neville Chamberlain's Speech in the House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. September 3, 1939.

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• The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.

  Isoroku Yamamoto

  Fate, Men, Hands

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• Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.

  Benito Mussolini

  Beautiful, Cheer, War

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• With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist.

  Gunther Blumentritt

  Disappointment, Military, War

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• The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse.

  Heinz Guderian

  War, House Of Cards, Broken

  Heinz Guderian (2001). “Panzer Leader”, p.387, Da Capo Press

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• As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Pride, World

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

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• Germany has solemnly recognized and guaranteed France her frontiers as determined after the Saar plebiscite... We thereby finally renounced all claims to Alsace-Lorraine, a land for which we have fought two great wars.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Land, Two

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

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• I have no further interest in the Czecho-Slovakian State, that is guaranteed. We want no Czechs

  Adolf Hitler

  War, World, Want

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• The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  War, Vulgarity Is, World

  Physics in the ContemporaryWorld (1947)

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