Ww2 Quotes

• 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.

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  Charles de Gaulle

  War   Lying   Destiny  

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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!

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  Joseph Stalin

  Change   War   Fighting  

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• No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

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  George S. Patton

  Country   Military   War  

  Attributed in Patton (motion picture) (1970). This is sometimes said to have been uttered in a speech by Patton to the Sixth Armored Division of the Third Army, 31 May 1944, but documentation is lacking. The following poem appeared in the Bureau of Aeronautics Navy Department News Letter, 1 Jan. 1943: "The greatest duty of a sailor / Is duty from worries and cares, / Not to die for his country, / Make our enemies die for theirs!"

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• What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

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  Winston Churchill

  War   Dark   Greatest Victory  

  Hansard 13 May 1940, col. 1502

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• In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

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  Winston Churchill

  Peace   War   Victory And Defeat  

  "Marlborough; his life and times".

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• We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.

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  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  History   Presidential   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.

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• Goddamn it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!

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  Henry Pierson Crowe

  Military   Heart   Marine  

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• The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

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  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War   Hands   World  

  Address at University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., 10 June 1940

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• 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

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  Benito Mussolini

  War   People   World  

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• I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

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  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Death   Military   Hiroshima And Nagasaki  

  Onthe detonationof the first atomicbomb,16 Jul1945.Quoted in Len Giovanitti and Fred FreedThe Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965).

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• My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse.

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  Michael Moore

  Uncles   Hero   Coward  

  Michael Moore @MMFlint, twitter.com. January 18, 2015.

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• Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

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  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War   Boys   Presidential  

  Speech, Boston, Mass., 30 Oct. 1940 See Lyndon Johnson 9

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

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  Hirohito

  War   Victory   Tumbling  

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• I would have fought in WW2, so I wasn't a pacifist in the broader sense. I prefer to be a pacifist, but I think there are exceptions and times to defend yourself or your country, but that war wasn't one of them.

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  Joe R. Lansdale

  Country   War   Thinking  

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been killed in armed conflict. Most of them were civilians.

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  George Monbiot

  War   People   Generations  

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• 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.

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  Adolf Hitler

  War   Soldier   World  

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• Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose

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  Winston Churchill

  War   Winning   America  

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• Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!

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  Benito Mussolini

  War   Italian   Dawn  

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• I don't mean this to sound hyperbolic but there are increasingly, albeit really minor, similarities between now and how Germany was lulled into what happened pre-WW2.

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  David Cross

  Mean   Sound   Germany  

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• As a very young man I signed a declaration - 'I renounce war and will never support another'. That was in 1939 and I have maintained this stand throughout the whole period, including WW2, as a Conscientious Objector.Worked to achieve Peace since. It is necessary for individuals to take this stand and maintain it. War never solves anything - it accentuates any problem, whatever it is, and makes matters worse. There is no moral or humanitarian justification for it.

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  Donald Saunders

  War   Men   Support  

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• Dunkirk has fallen... with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knew no bounds. You have not disappointed me.

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  Adolf Hitler

  War   Soldier   Battle  

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