87 result(s) for World War II Quotes.
"To be secure on land, we must be supreme at sea."
"I have not always been a good man, but I have always been a good soldier."
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
"It is better to be poor and free than rich and a slave."
"In war, there is no second prize for the runner-up."
"Let us go forward together, with our united strength."
"A world at peace with itself will be a world that is secure in its own body."
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"What is past is prologue."
"In war, the first casualty is truth."
"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds."
"The only way to win a war is to outlast your opponent."
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
"We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic."
"In the name of God, let us go forth and have our revenge."
"What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history."
"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."
"A date which will live in infamy."
"It is not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something."
"This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years."
"The dead remember our logbook."
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"You cannot be prepared for anything if you are only prepared to be yourself."
"Wars are not won by evacuations."
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
"The war is not over, but I can feel the tension in the air."
"We are still in the first minutes of the first day of the rest of our lives."
"There is a fine line between courage and recklessness."
"We will not surrender, and even if, which I do not for a second believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle."
"If you take the risk, you may lose, but if you do not take the risk, you will always lose."
"There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends."
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
"War makes thieves and peace makes honest men."
"The world must be made safe for democracy."
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die."
"There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent."
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"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
"In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times."
"The things we do in war are often not the things we do in peace."
"It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole."
"You cannot be in politics and be a pacifist."
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
"To be prepared is half the victory."
"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans."
"The war is won, but the battle for peace is yet to come."
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
"In war, truth is the first casualty."
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
"In war, morality is always found to be the most necessary thing."
"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
"War is hell."
"To end a war, you must win it."
"Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems."
"A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality."
"War is a mere continuation of politics by other means."
"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how justified it may be, there is nothing civilized about it."
"In war, there is no prize for the runner-up."
"It is not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be happiness? Perhaps that too is a good thing to live for."
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
"A lot of people think that we are all well off because we are bright. It has been a matter of good luck."
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
"The war is a terrible thing. It’s not good for anything except to teach people a lesson."
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
"We are all caught in the crossfire of the values we hold dear."
"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival."
"We must be the great arsenal of democracy."
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
"There are no atheists in foxholes."
"The truth is and always was that the ball is in the court of the aggressor."
"The greatest victory is that which requires no battle."
"Any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride, 'I served in the United States Navy.'"
"War does not determine who is right – only who is left."
"Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind."
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
"In war, the truth is often the first casualty."
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
"War is a series of catastrophes which result in a victory."
"To secure peace is to prepare for war."
"We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine."
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