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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.

    Badass   Eye   Soldier  
    Order of the Day, 2 June 1944
  • Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

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

    Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation, delivered 8 December 1941, Washington, D.C.
  • The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.

    Prayer   Military   Eye  
    1944 Despatch to US forces on D-Day, 6 Jun
  • Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.

  • Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.

    Winning   Long   People  
    Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation, delivered 8 December 1941, Washington, D.C.
  • The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.

  • We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.

    Radio broadcast, 29 Dec. 1940. According to Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men (1986), this slogan was picked up for Roosevelt's address after it was used in conversation by John McCloy, who had gotten it from Jean Monnet.
  • Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

    Silly   Pearls   Hell  
    "Fictional character: John Blutarsky (Bluto)". "Animal House", www.imdb.com. July 27, 1978.
  • December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.

    Address to joint session of Congress asking for declaration of war on Japan, 8 Dec. 1941
  • The eyes of the world are upon you.

    Eye   D Day   World  
    Order of the Day, 2 June 1944
  • Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan... We will gain the inevitable triumph so help us God.

    War   Yesterday   America  
    Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address to the Congress Asking That a State of War Be Declared Between the United States and Japan, www.loc.gov. December 8, 1941.
  • We must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself. We must apply ourselves to our task with the same resolution, the same sense of urgency, the same spirit of patriotism and sacrifice as we would show were we at war.

    The Great Arsenal of Democracy, delivered 29 December 1940
  • Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.

    Defense   World   Pearls  
    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.

    Fate   Men   Hands  
  • After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

    Fog   Battle   Pearls  
  • I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

    Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940
  • When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!

  • We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

    Ronald Reagan, Mark J. Green, Gail MacColl (1983). “There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error”, Pantheon
  • As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.

    Military   Pride   Men  
  • Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.

  • No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

    The Great Arsenal of Democracy, delivered 29 December 1940
  • Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

    Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940
  • Today at Pearl Harbor, veterans are gathering to pay tribute to the young men they remember who never escaped the sunken ships. And over the years, some Pearl Harbor veterans have made a last request. They ask that their ashes be brought down and placed inside the USS Arizona. After the long lives given them, they wanted to rest besides the best men they ever knew. Such loyalty and love remain the greatest strength of the United States Navy.

    Loyalty   Men   Years  
  • I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.

    Thinking   Past   Needs  
    "Office of the Historian Hosts Conference on the American Experience in Southeast Asia". 2009-2017.state.gov. September 29, 2010.
  • Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.

  • No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.

    The Great Arsenal of Democracy, delivered 29 December 1940
  • Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.

  • 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.'

    War   Men   Years  
    Speech in House of Commons, 18 June 1940
  • Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

    Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940
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