Memorable World War II Quotes

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"To be secure on land, we must be supreme at sea."
Winston Churchill
"I have not always been a good man, but I have always been a good soldier."
Erwin Rommel
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
Winston Churchill
"It is better to be poor and free than rich and a slave."
David Ben-Gurion
"In war, there is no second prize for the runner-up."
General Omar N. Bradley
"Let us go forward together, with our united strength."
Winston Churchill
"A world at peace with itself will be a world that is secure in its own body."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"What is past is prologue."
William Shakespeare
"In war, the first casualty is truth."
Aeschylus
"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds."
Winston Churchill
"The only way to win a war is to outlast your opponent."
George S. Patton
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
Winston Churchill
"We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic."
Winston Churchill
"In the name of God, let us go forth and have our revenge."
Vladimir Lenin
"What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history."
William L. Shirer
"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
"A date which will live in infamy."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"It is not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something."
Winston Churchill
"This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years."
Ferdinand Foch
"The dead remember our logbook."
Book inscription, Alliance in the Middle East
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"You cannot be prepared for anything if you are only prepared to be yourself."
J. Robert Oppenheimer
"Wars are not won by evacuations."
Winston Churchill
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Thomas Jefferson
"The war is not over, but I can feel the tension in the air."
Anne Frank
"We are still in the first minutes of the first day of the rest of our lives."
Perry White
"There is a fine line between courage and recklessness."
Peter O'Toole
"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."
Winston Churchill
"If you take the risk, you may lose, but if you do not take the risk, you will always lose."
George S. Patton
"There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends."
John 15:13
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
J.R.R. Tolkien
"War makes thieves and peace makes honest men."
Daniel Defoe
"The world must be made safe for democracy."
Woodrow Wilson
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die."
G.K. Chesterton
"There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent."
Major General John H. Montgomery
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"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
Emiliano Zapata
"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times."
Winston Churchill
"The things we do in war are often not the things we do in peace."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"You cannot be in politics and be a pacifist."
George Orwell
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
Peter Drucker
"To be prepared is half the victory."
Miguel de Cervantes
"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans."
Winston Churchill
"The war is won, but the battle for peace is yet to come."
Barack Obama
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
Bertrand Russell
"In war, truth is the first casualty."
Aeschylus
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
Winston Churchill
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
Plato
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
Winston Churchill
"In war, morality is always found to be the most necessary thing."
Noam Chomsky
"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
"War is hell."
William Tecumseh Sherman
"To end a war, you must win it."
Richard N. Haass
"Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems."
Sun Tzu
"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."
John F. Kennedy
"War is a mere continuation of politics by other means."
Carl von Clausewitz
"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how justified it may be, there is nothing civilized about it."
Michael P. Murphy
"In war, there is no prize for the runner-up."
General Omar N. Bradley
"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."
Nikita Khrushchev
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"A lot of people think that we are all well off because we are bright. It has been a matter of good luck."
Winston Churchill
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
Winston Churchill
"The war is a terrible thing. It’s not good for anything except to teach people a lesson."
Vera Brittain
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
Indira Gandhi
"We are all caught in the crossfire of the values we hold dear."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"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."
Winston Churchill
"We must be the great arsenal of democracy."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana
"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
Joseph Heller
"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."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
Winston Churchill
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
Winston Churchill
"There are no atheists in foxholes."
B. J. Palmer
"The truth is and always was that the ball is in the court of the aggressor."
Nikita Khrushchev
"The greatest victory is that which requires no battle."
Sun Tzu
"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.'"
John F. Kennedy
"War does not determine who is right – only who is left."
Bertrand Russell
"Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind."
Lester B. Pearson
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
Sun Tzu
"In war, the truth is often the first casualty."
Aeschylus
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
Winston Churchill
"War is a series of catastrophes which result in a victory."
Georges Clemenceau
"To secure peace is to prepare for war."
Carl von Clausewitz
"We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine."
Eduardo Galeano
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