Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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.
Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring
The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
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.'
The world must know what happened, and never forget.
History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
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!
Soldiers of the Reich! This day, you are to take part in an offensive of such importance that the whole future of the war may depend on its outcome.
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
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