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  • Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation ... the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality ...though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII]

  • 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
  • WWII is something contemporary readers already know a lot about. If our schools are doing their jobs, they know about the invasion of Normandy, the Hitler Youth, the Holocaust, and at least a few of the horrors of the Eastern Front.

    Jobs   School   Holocaust  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States.

  • The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.

  • 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
  • The Road To Serfdom was written during WWII, and basically it's an anti-Nazi, anti-communist thing, but also it's an anti-Conservative and anti-Labor-party thing aimed at the British. He was an Austrian, writing in Britain. And I feel like now, I guess, everybody pays lip service to libertarian - and, indeed, many conservative - ideas, and yet they keep moving forward with an increasingly bureaucratic state. It shows itself in all sorts of little ways.

    Party   Moving   Writing  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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  
  • A friend of ours said if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after WWII, that every single one of them, every last rich white one of them, from Truman on would be hung to death and shot. And this current administration is no exception. They should be hung and tried and shot as war criminals.

    War   Law   White  
  • An era that I specifically like is sort of late 50's, early 60's. I guess mid 50's too. I like these types of films that deal with post WWII America and this more complex leading man that kind of emerges from that.

    Men   America   Eras  
    Source: collider.com
  • Bernie Sanders is like those liberal members of the German National Socialist Party during the WWII, or of the Italian Fascist movement during Mussolini. They'd do much for their own workers and peasants, socially... as long as funds were flowing in from the countries plundered by their imperialism.

    Country   Party   Italian  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

    Peace   War   Hate  
    Speech in Ottawa on January 10, 1946. "Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches". Book edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels, 1948.
  • By...WWII, I.G. Farben had become...part of the most gigantic and powerful cartel of all history...interlocking agreements...over 2,000 of them...In the US, the cartel had established important agreements with

  • The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialisation, mechanisation, urbanisation and exploding population.

  • 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!

    Change   War   Fighting  
  • 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.

    Hansard 4 June 1940, col. 796
  • 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.

    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!"
  • Thematically, we're both [with Kristin Hannah ] interested in women's experiences and women's stories, and until now, you've mostly dealt with how it feels to be a wife/mother/sister/name your poison in today's world. But this story [The Nightingale ] is told from the perspective of two sisters during the German occupation of France in WWII.

    Mother   Names   Two  
    Source: www.omnivoracious.com
  • I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a lens has its focal length, the novel also has its best distance from the action.

    War   Distance   Thinking  
    "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test' - Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview with Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.
  • I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • The big fun in Battleship is that there are no current battleships in the Navy today. The battleships are about 1,000 feet long and they have huge guns. They were what you saw in WWII. The last battleship that was used was the Missouri, which is what the Japanese surrendered to...

    Fun   Gun   Feet  
    "Brooklyn Decker and Director Peter Berg Talk BATTLESHIP, Naval Warfare and the Design of the Aliens at WonderCon". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 19, 2012.
  • All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.

  • I have to admit that WWII France was not at all on my radar for Kristin Hannah.

    France   Wwii   Radar  
    Source: www.omnivoracious.com
  • The thing about collaborators is that you don't know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. [In WWII,] the worst cases of collaboration weren't among the real collaborators, that official militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a sort of laxity, an apathy.

    Real   Knowing   People  
    "Pure War". Book by Paul Virilio and Sylvère Lotringer, 2008.
  • We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

    Order of the Day, delivered 6 June 1944
  • I'm going to leave WWII. I considered and rejected doing something on the Pacific. Fourteen years is enough. I'd like to take on a different challenge and probably a different era. But it will be another war. It's what I do.

    War   Years   Challenges  
    "Rick Atkinson talks 'The Guns at Last Light'". Interview with John Barron, www.chicagotribune.com. May 10, 2013.
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