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Winston Churchill12 quotes
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. — Winston Churchill · 1940In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill. — Winston ChurchillNever in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. — Winston Churchill · 1940This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. — Winston Churchill · 1942Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.' — Winston Churchill · 1940We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, 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. — Winston Churchill · 1940All 12 quotes →General George S. Patton4 quotes
Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. — General George S. Patton · 1969I 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 · 1969Now, 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 · 1969Americans 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 · 1969Charles de Gaulle3 quotes
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war. — Charles de Gaulle · 1940Since those whose duty it was to hold the sword of France have let it fall, I have picked up its broken point. — Charles de Gaulle · 1940Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not and shall not die. — Charles de Gaulle · 1940Franklin D. Roosevelt3 quotes
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. — Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1941We must be the great arsenal of democracy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1940Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. — Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1940Neville Chamberlain3 quotes
For the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time. — Neville Chamberlain · 1938This 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 · 1939How 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 · 1938Emperor Hirohito2 quotes
The enemy has begun to employ a new and most cruel bomb, the power of which to do damage is indeed incalculable, taking the toll of many innocent lives. Should we continue to fight, it would not only result in an ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation, but also it would lead to the total extinction of human civilization. Such being the case, how are we to save the millions of our subjects, or to atone ourselves before the hallowed spirits of our imperial ancestors?... It is according to the dictate of time and fate that we have resolved to pave the way for a grand peace for all the generations to come by enduring the unavoidable and suffering what is insufferable. — Emperor Hirohito · 1945The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage. — Emperor Hirohito · 1945Harry Truman2 quotes
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima... The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East. — Harry Truman · 1945The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world. — Harry Truman · 1955Adolf Hitler1 quote
This war did not bear the characteristics of the previous conflicts among the European nations to which we were accustomed. To an ever increasing degree it began to be generally realized that the reasons for this conflict were no longer to be sought in the usual interests even if plausible of the various nations, but that in reality it was one of those elementary struggles which shaking the foundations of the world but once in a thousand years, introduce a new millennium. — Adolf Hitler · 1942Arthur Harris1 quote
I would not regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier. — Arthur Harris · 1945Bertolt Brecht1 quote
Truly, I am living in a time of darkness. — Bertolt Brecht · 1939Bill Clinton1 quote
They may walk with a little less spring in their step, and their ranks are growing thinner, but let us never forget, when they were young, these men saved the world. — Bill Clinton · 1994Chester W. Nimitz1 quote
Uncommon valor was a common virtue. — Chester W. Nimitz · 1945Dwight D. Eisenhower1 quote
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 · 1944Eric Geddes1 quote
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. — Eric Geddes · 1918General Kuribayashi1 quote
The United States is the last country in the world that Japan should fight. — General Kuribayashi · 2006George Bell1 quote
The policy is obliteration, openly acknowledged. This is not a justifiable act of war. — George Bell · 1944George C. Marshall1 quote
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 · 1947George S. Patton1 quote
Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969Hermann Goring1 quote
I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... A total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence. — Hermann Goring · 1941John L. DeWitt1 quote
Along the vital Pacific Coast over 112,000 potential enemies, of Japanese extraction, are at large today. There are indications that these are organized and ready for concerted action at a favorable opportunity. The very fact that no sabotage has taken place to date is a disturbing and confirming indication that such action will be taken — John L. DeWitt · 1942King George VI1 quote
There may be dark days ahead, and war can no longer be confined to the battlefield, but we can only do the right as we see the right, and reverently commit our cause to God. If one and all, we keep resolutely faithful to it, then, with God's help, we shall prevail. — King George VI · 2010Lt. Aldo Raine1 quote
You probably heard we ain't in the prisoner-takin' business; we in the killin' Nazi business and cousin, business is a-boomin'. — Lt. Aldo Raine · 2009Noel Coward1 quote
Don't let's be beastly to the Germans
When our Victory is ultimately won. — Noel Coward · 1943Pink Floyd1 quote
Did you see the frightened ones? Did you hear the falling bombs? Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue sky? — Pink Floyd · 1979Randall Jarrell1 quote
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 · 1948Robert H. Jackson1 quote
That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason. — Robert H. Jackson · 1945Shoichi Yokoi1 quote
It is a terrible shame for me-I came back, still alive, without having won the war. — Shoichi Yokoi · 1997Stanley Baldwin1 quote
I'm very much afraid, sir, that your greatest test is yet to come. — Stanley Baldwin · 2010Von Luger 'The Kommandant'1 quote
Are all American officers so ill-mannered? — Von Luger 'The Kommandant' · 1963