World War 2 Quotes - Page 8

• Wipe out the entire defense potential remaining to the Soviets.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Defense, Wipe

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• There is no doubt that the absence of a second front in Europe considerably relieves the position of the German Army, nor can there be any doubt that the appearance of a second front on the Continent of Europe - and undoubtedly this will appear in the near future - will essentially relieve the position of our armies to the detriment of the German Army.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Army, Europe

  Radio address from Moscow (November 6, 1941). Vital Speeches of the Day, p. 102, December 1, 1941.

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• The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead.

  Konrad Adenauer

  War, World, February

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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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• Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affair of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Wish, Germany

  Adolf Hitler (1941). “My new order”

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• Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe. The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation. Germany needs peace and desires peace!

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Flower, Simple

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• Germany has concluded a Non-Aggression Pact with Poland. We shall adhere to it unconditionally. We recognize Poland as the home of a great and nationally conscious people.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Home, People

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

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• ...the existence and increase of our race and nation, the sustenance of its children and the purity of its blood, the freedom and independence of the Fatherland, and the nation's ability to fulfill the mission appointed to it by the Creator of the universe.

  Adolf Hitler

  Children, War, Race

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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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• The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in four or five more years of war. And it is in the dragging-out of the war at enormous expense, until the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must reside.

  Winston Churchill

  Powerful, War, Tired

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• The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Curves, Achievement

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• We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Ghetto

  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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• The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Pyramids, Poverty

  Radio address, 7 Apr. 1932 See Sumner 3

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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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• In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

  Isoroku Yamamoto

  Running, Military, War

  "Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan". Book by Ronald H. Spector, 1985.

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• The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once...I only wish that [the Americans] had also had, say, three carriers at Hawaii.

  Isoroku Yamamoto

  Military, Home, Blow

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• The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, War, Achievement

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• The Bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.

  William D. Leahy

  War, Experts, Bombs

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• A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion but the whole airplane cracked and crinkled from the blast... We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud... mushrooming, terrible and incredibly tall.

  Paul Tibbets

  War, Airplane, Cities

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• Kill Japs, kill Japs, kill more Japs!

  William Halsey

  War, World, War Of The Worlds

  "Wartime". Book by Paul Fussell, 1990.

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• Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.

  Benito Mussolini

  War, Believe, Doe

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• My strength has now been reduced to the equivalent of 36 squadrons...we should be able to carry on the war single-handed for some time if not indefinitely.

  Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

  War, World, Able

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• I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence strategy.

  Holland Smith

  Military, War, Heart

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• The American People in their Righteous Might will win through to Absolute Victory.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Winning, People, Victory

  Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation, delivered 8 December 1941, Washington, D.C.

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• Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Blood, World

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