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Topic·World War II✕clear

I would not regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier.

1945

★ 0.9

Film · War (film) · Adventure (film) · War · Adventure

Are all American officers so ill-mannered?

Von Luger 'The Kommandant'

The Great Escape · 1963

★ 1.1

Film · Historical drama (film) · Drama (film) · Historical drama · Drama

I'm very much afraid, sir, that your greatest test is yet to come.

Stanley Baldwin

The King's Speech · 2010

★ 1.1

Speech · Political speech

Do not let us speak of darker days. Let us speak rather of sterner days.

Winston Churchill

1941

★ 1.3

Speech · Political speech

The Germans, if this Government is returned, are going to pay every penny; they are going to be squeezed as a lemon is squeezed-until the pips squeak.

1918

★ 1.7

Radio broadcast

How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing.

Neville Chamberlain

1938

★ 1.8

Radio broadcast · Speech

This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final Note stating that unless we heard from them by 11 0'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.

Neville Chamberlain

1939

★ 1.8

Speech · Political speech

The policy is obliteration, openly acknowledged. This is not a justifiable act of war.

1944

★ 1.8

Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.

George C. Marshall

1947

★ 1.8

Don't let's be beastly to the Germans When our Victory is ultimately won.

1943

★ 1.9

Radio broadcast

People of Western Europe: A landing was made this morning on the coast of France by troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force. This landing is part of the concerted United Nations plan for the liberation of Europe, made in conjuction with our great Russian allies... I call upon all who love freedom to stand with us. Keep your faith staunch-our arms are resolute-together we shall achieve victory.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

1944

★ 1.9

Film · Biography (film) · War (film) · Biography · War

I don't want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We're not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding on to anything except the enemy. We're going to hold on to him by the nose and we're gonna kick him in the ass. We're gonna kick the hell out of him all the time and we're gonna go through him like crap through a goose!

General George S. Patton

Patton · 1969

★ 1.9

Film · Biography (film) · War (film) · Biography · War

Now, there's one thing that you men will be able to say when you get back home and you may thank God for it. Thirty years from now, when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you, "What did you do in the great World War II?" you won't have to say, "Well...I shoveled shit in Louisiana."

General George S. Patton

Patton · 1969

★ 1.9

Film · Biography (film) · War (film) · Biography · War

Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war. Because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.

General George S. Patton

Patton · 1969

★ 1.9

It is a terrible shame for me-I came back, still alive, without having won the war.

1997

★ 1.9

Truly, I am living in a time of darkness.

1939

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

1955

★ 1.9

Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Chester W. Nimitz

1945

★ 2.7

Speech · Political speech

Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not and shall not die.

Charles de Gaulle

Appeal of 18 June · 1940

★ 2.8

Poem · War poetry

In bombers named for girls, we burned The cities we had learned about in school- Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among The people we had killed and never seen. When we lasted long enough they gave us medals; When we died they said, "Our casualties were low."

Randall Jarrell

1948

★ 3.4

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