World War 2 Quotes - Page 9

• Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.

  Benito Mussolini

  War, World, Individual

  Quoted in the Enciclopedia Italiana.

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• You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Doors, Rotten

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• Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?

  Erwin Rommel

  War, Tired, Men

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• To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.

  Erwin Rommel

  War, Men, World

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• No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  War, Iwo Jima, Islands

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• We must not again underestimate the Japanese.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  War, World, Underestimate

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• December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Air Force, December

  Address to joint session of Congress asking for declaration of war on Japan, 8 Dec. 1941

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• Why should this war in the West be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never rise again.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Restoration, World

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• The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory!

  Joseph Stalin

  Change, War, Fighting

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• The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly.

  Hirohito

  War, Victory, Tumbling

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• Mussolini is quite humiliated because our troops have not moved a step forward. Even today they have not succeeded in advancing and have halted in front of the first French fortification which put up some resistance.

  Galeazzo Ciano

  War, Troops, World

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• Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards...the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill...tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Morning, War, Lying

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• Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Graduation

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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