World War 2 Quotes

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  • For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy out of the strongest possible natural positions.

    War   Enemy   World  
  • Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.

    War   World   Praying  
    Opening and Closing Statements at the Japanese Surrender Ceremony, delivered 2 September 1945, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan
  • This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism

    War   People   Ordinary  
  • This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.

    War   Past   World  
  • 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
  • We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

  • 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!

    War   Flower   Simple  
  • Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world.

    War   Lying   Destiny  
  • A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

    War   Years   Holocaust  
  • ...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire.

    Real   War   Men  
  • Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

    Speech at Mansion House, London, 10 Nov. 1942.
  • No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.

    War   Iwo Jima   Islands  
  • A victory at Kursk would shine like a beacon to the world!

    War   Shining   Victory  
  • The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.

    War   Italian   Lakes  
  • There are no atheists in the foxholes.

    Quoted in Carlos P. Romulo, I Saw the Fall of the Philippines (1943)
  • I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

    Address to the Officers and Men of the Third Armored Division, www.3ad.com. June 02, 1944.
  • The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it.

    Hope   War   Acceptance  
  • Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here.

    War   Please Me   Giving  
  • 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.'

    War   Moving   Fall  
    Hansard 18 June 1940, col. 60
  • Wipe out the entire defense potential remaining to the Soviets.

    War   Defense   Wipe  
  • Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

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

    Heinz Guderian (2001). “Panzer Leader”, p.387, Da Capo Press
  • I speak in the name of the entire German people when I assure the world that we all share the honest wish to eliminate the enmity that brings far more costs than any possible benefits. It would be a wonderful thing for all of humanity if both peoples would renounce force against each other forever. The German people are ready to make such a pledge.

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

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

    Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940
  • The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.

    Military   War   Mean  
  • 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.

    War   World   Sides  
  • 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.

    Military   War   Heart  
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