We Have It in Our Power to Begin the World Over Again Great Britain
This compilation of World State of war 2 quotes has been a long time in coming to the website. Due to the far-reaching affect of the war, there were a large number of quotes recorded which are of involvement still to this twenty-four hour period. The trouble with trying to put together a comprehensive article on WW2 quotes is one of volume. Equally a result, the document will continue to be updated as time permits. If yous take a favorite quote from before, during, or afterward the war that should be added, please get out it in the comments section of the article or on our World State of war 2 Facts Facebook folio. The quotes included beneath come from various leaders and statesmen from the war to include President Roosevelt, Sir Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and more than.
WW2 Centrolineal Quotes
WW2 American Quotes
Quotes by Lieutenant General Omar Bradley:
I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died…every man who set foot on Omaha Embankment was a hero." – Commander of the US Commencement Army – (Speaking after the state of war)
Mathematician Albert Einstein:
"As long equally there are sovereign nations possessing dandy power, war is inevitable."
"I know not with what weapons Globe War III will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones."
Quotes past Full general Douglas MacArthur:
"Nothing would delight me ameliorate than if they would give me three months and then attack here."
– Supreme Allied Commander of South-West Pacific – (Speaking of the Philippines) 5th December 1940
"I'll come back as before long equally I can with as much as I can. In the concurrently, yous've got to concord!" – Every bit spoken to General Wainright in March of 1942
"Allow the dogged spirit of Bataan and Coregidor atomic number 82 on…In the proper name of your sacred dead, strike! Let no eye be faint. Let every arm be steeled." – On the beach at Palo, broadcasting his render – 24th October 1944
"Old soldiers never die; they only fade away. And like the old soldier in that ballad, I at present close my armed forces career and just fade away, an sometime soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to encounter that duty." April 19thursday, 1951
Quotes by General Dwight D. Eisenhower:
"During the time I have had WACs nether my command, they have met every exam and task assigned to them…their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit, and determination are immeasurable." – in a speech communication referring to the five women whom served on his staff during the war – 1945
"No amphibious attack in history has approached this 1 in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and ant-similar files of advancing troops ashore." – Speaking about the Centrolineal landings at Sicily that occurred in July 1943
"Your task will not be an easy i. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely" – Addressed to Allied soldiers on June 6th, 1944
Quotes by U.S. Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal:
"The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the side by side 500 years."- 23rd February 1945
Quotes by Armada Admiral Chester Westward. Nimitz:
"Our citizens tin now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making. Maybe we will exist forgiven if nosotros claim we are about midway to our objective." – June 1942
"In case opportunity for destruction of a major portion of the enemy fleet is offered, or can be created, such destruction becomes the main job." – In his order to Halsey, prior to the Battle of Leyte Gulf – October 1944
"Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue." – March 16, 1945
Quotes by Usa President Franklin D. Roosevelt:
"I take seen state of war…I hate war." – at in address at Chautauqua, NY – August 14, 1936
"The Soviet Union, equally everybody who has the courage to face the fact knows, is run by a dictatorship every bit absolute as any other dictatorship in the earth." – FDR speaking before the American Youth Congress on Feb 10, 1940
"On this 10th twenty-four hour period of June 1940, the manus that held the dagger has struck information technology into the dorsum of its neighbor"
"Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full forcefulness of men's enlightened will…Information technology is the most humane, the nigh advanced, and, in the end, the almost unconquerable of all forms of human society. The autonomous aspiration is no mere recent phase of human being history…We…would rather die on our feet than live on our knees." –FDU during his Third Inauguration Voice communication, January 20, 1941
"I say that the delivery of needed supplies to Great britain is imperative. I say that this can exist done; it must be done; and information technology will be done…The merely affair we have to fear is fearfulness itself." –FDR during his now famous Fireside Chat radio address that occurred on May 27, 1941
"On the European Forepart, the almost important evolution of the by year has been the crushing German offensive against the not bad armies of Russia" – April 29, 1942
"The massed, angered forces of common humanity are on the march. They are going forward – on the Russian front, in the vast Pacific area, and into Europe – converging upon their ultimate objectives: Berlin and Tokyo. I call back the first crack in the Centrality has come. The criminal, corrupt Fascist regime in Italy is going to pieces." – FDR during a Fireside Conversation that occurred on July 28, 1943
"The world has never seen greater devotion, determination, and self-sacrifice than have been displayed by the Russian people…under the leadership of Marshal Joseph Stalin. With a nation that in saving itself is thereby helping to save all the world from the Nazi menace, this country of ours should always be glad to be a skillful neighbour and a sincere friend to the world of the hereafter." – FDR during a Fireside Conversation that occurred on July 28, 1943
"Force is the only language they understand, like bullies." – FDR speaking in reference to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and German language leader Adolf Hitler.
General George South. Patton WW2 Quotes:
Wars may exist fought with weapons, simply they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
– September 1933
"Mayhap there are 5,000, perhaps ten,000 Nazi bastards in their concrete foxholes earlier the 3rd Army. Now if Ike stops holding Monty's manus and gives me some supplies, I'll go through the Siegfried Line like shxx through a goose."
"Never in history has the navy landed an ground forces at the planned time and place. But if you state us anywhere within l miles of Fedela and inside one week of D-Day. I'll go ahead and win."- Nov 1942 (Commenting of the North Africa Landings)
"Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to become it over with is to get get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker nosotros can go home. The shortest mode home is through Berlin and Tokyo. And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that newspaper-hanging son-of-a-bowwow Hitler – just similar I'd shoot a snake." – In a speech delivered to his troops before embarking for Operation Overlord (D-Twenty-four hour period).
"We want to get the hell over there. The quicker nosotros clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker nosotros can accept a little jaunt confronting the majestic-pissing Japs and make clean out their next too…before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit. – General Patton speaking to his soldiers earlier Operation Overlord (D-Mean solar day).
"A skillful plan violently executed now is ameliorate than a perfect plan executed next week." – War every bit I Knew It, 1947
"A pint of sweat volition salve a gallon of blood." War every bit I Knew It, 1947
General Joseph Stilwell:
"The Limeys want us in even with our hastily fabricated plans and our one-half-trained and one-half-equipped troops." – Speaking almost joining the war alongside Britain, date unknown
"I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating every bit hell. I think we ought to find out what acquired it, go back and retake it." – May 1942
General Beak Slim:
"The Chinese soldier was tough, brave, and experienced. After all he had been fighting on his own without help for years. He was a veteran among the Allies
The New York Times:
"Germany having seized the casualty, Soviet Russian federation will seize that function of the carcass that Germany cannot utilize. Information technology will play the noble role of hyena to the German panthera leo."- commenting on the joint invasion of Poland past Frg and the Soviet Union, 1939.
WW2 British Quotes
British Prime Government minister Neville Chamberlain:
"How horrible, how fantastic, how incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here considering of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know cipher."- 1938
"It is evil things nosotros shall be fighting confronting, fauna strength, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution." – 1939
Quotes by British Full general Bernard Constabulary Montgomery:
"The Germans should have idea of some of these things before they began the state of war, particularly before attacking the Russians." – referring to a German soldier's asking to surrender but to British or American forces and non the Russians.
"Nice chap, no General." – on get-go impressions of American Full general Dwight D. Eisenhower
Quotes past British Labor Political party Opposition Leader Clement Atlee:
"In a life and death struggle, nosotros cannot beget to exit our destinies in the easily of failures." – on the British handling of the war in Norway
Quotes by British Field Align Sir Harold Alexander:
"The knowledge not only of the enemy's precise forcefulness and disposition, but also how, when, and where he intends to acquit out his operations brought a new dimension to the prosecution of war." – Commenting on the ULTRA code system
Quotes by British Prime Government minister Winston Churchill:
*Note: Due to the large volume of notable quotes made by Sir Winston Churchill during the years leading upwards to WW2, we have but included a small number in this article. We take published a separate account of quotes by Churchill for those who are interested.
"Singapore could merely be taken after a siege past an regular army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise." – 1940
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron drape has descended across the Continent. Backside the line lie all the capitals of the aboriginal states of Fundamental and Eastern Europe…All these famous cities…prevarication in what I must telephone call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one course or another, non only to Soviet influence but to a very loftier and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow."
"In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Skillful Will."
"Without ships, nosotros cannot live." – on the importance of winning the War in the Atlantic
"Good night, and then – sleep to gather strength for the morn. For the morn will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus volition polish the dawn." – to the people of France – October 21, 1940
"We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won past evacuations" – in a speed to Parliament on June 4th, 1940
"Before Alamein, nosotros had no victories. After Alamein, we had no defeats."
"Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few." – September 1940
"The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had always seen, felt, or imagined. At that place were neither snow-shoes nor skis – still less skiers. We must do our all-time. Thus began this ramshackle campaign." – 1940
"The Battle of France is over. The Battle of United kingdom is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian culture." – June 1940
"In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign on Russia, we tin already see, afterward half dozen months of fighting, that he has fabricated one of the outstanding blunders in history." – before the House of Commons – December eleven, 1941
"The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to go at. He however possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories…No i can tell what new complications and perils might ascend in four or 5 more years of war. And it is in the dragging-out of the war at enormous expense, until the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must reside." – to the American Congress, May 19, 1943
"The but matter that always really frightened me during the war was the U-Gunkhole peril…It did not take the class of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public."
"I expected to encounter a wild cat roaring into the mountains – and what do I find? A whale wallowing on the beaches!" – to Sir Harold Alexander on the handling of the Allied landings at Anzio.
"We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and attempt to make a Balkan Front."
Quotes by British Air Marshal "Bomber" Harris:
"They sowed the wind, and at present they are going to reap the cyclone.
WW2 French Quotes
Quotes by French General Maxime Weygand:
"There is nothing preventing the enemy reaching Paris. We were fighting on our terminal line and it has been breached. I am helpless, I cannot
A WWII photo portrait of General Charles de Gaulle of the Free French Forces and first president of the Fifth Republic serving from 1959 to 1969.
intervene."
Quotes by French President Raymond Poincare:
"Yous concord in your hands the future of the globe." – Jan 1919
Quotes by Charles de Gaulle:
"Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, merely we can even so look to the hereafter in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world."
WW2 Soviet Quotes
Quotes by Petrograd Party Committee Head Andrei Zhdanov:
"The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and expiry." – Referring to the High german Army encircling the city
Quotes by Unknown Soviet Ruddy Regular army Soldier:
"Men were thrown headlong at Finnish guns. Tanks and their crews were shelled and burned, whole regiments of infantry encircled. Entire battalions of troops, the spearhead of the Scarlet Army, were cut off from their reinforcements and supplies." – During the Soviet-Finnish Wintertime War
Quotes by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin:
"This war is not an ordinary state of war. Information technology is the war of the unabridged Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism" – 22nd June 1941
"We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, too as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defence if fascist Germany risked attacking our country in disobedience of the pact. This was a definite proceeds to our country and a loss for fascist Federal republic of germany."- tertiary July 1941 – (Speaking of the 1939 not-aggression pact between the USSR and Federal republic of germany)
"The Red Regular army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the concluding drop of claret for our towns and villages…onward, to victory!" – July 1941
WW2 Centrality Quotes
WW2 German Quotes
German One thousand Admiral Donitz:
"Our losses… accept reached and intolerable level." – Commenting on German naval losses in the Atlantic Theater, May 1943
Quotes by German Leader Adolf Hitler:
"I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms."
"It is the concluding territorial claim which I take to make in Europe, but information technology is a claim from which I will non recede and which, God willing, I volition brand good." – Delivered in a speech covering the Sudetenland, 1938
"Germany must either exist a world ability or there will be no Germany" – from his autobiography 'Mein Kampf'
"Soldiers of the Reich! This day, you are to take part in an offensive of such importance that the whole future of the war may depend on its event." – July 5th, 1943
"Why should this war in the W be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never rise again." – September 1939
"Gentlemen, you are almost to witness the about famous victory in history." – addressing his generals on June 9th, 1940, prior to 'Operation Xanthous'.
"Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist." – March 15th, 1939
"Wipe out the entire defense potential remaining to the Soviets." – Directive 41 issued to German Army generals
"Dunkirk has fallen…with information technology has concluded the greatest boxing of world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knew no bounds. Yous have not disappointed me" – June 5th, 1940
"You only accept to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure volition come up crashing down." – on invading the Soviet Union
"A victory at Kursk would smoothen similar a beacon to the world!" – to Hitler'south Generals
"Whenever I think of this attack, my tum turns over." – to tank warfare specialist Heinz Guderian prior to assaulting Kursk.
"I speak in the proper name of the entire German people when I assure the world that we all share the honest wish to eliminate the enmity that brings far more costs than whatsoever possible benefits. It would be a wonderful thing for all of humanity if both peoples would renounce forcefulness against each other forever. The German language people are ready to brand such a pledge." – October 14th, 1933
"The assertion that information technology is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian Land is absurd!" – January 30th, 1934
"Frg neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affair of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss" – May 21st, 1935
"Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its cardinal convictions. And it wants peace as well owing to the realization of the elementary archaic fact that no state of war would exist likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe. The primary upshot of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation. Federal republic of germany needs peace and desires peace!" – May 21st, 1935
"Germany has ended a Non-Assailment Pact with Poland. Nosotros shall adhere to information technology unconditionally. We recognize Poland equally the home of a bully and nationally conscious people." – May 21st 1935
"…the existence and increase of our race and nation, the sustenance of its children and the purity of its blood, the liberty and independence of the Fatherland, and the nation's ability to fulfill the mission appointed to it past the Creator of the universe."
Quotes by German General Erwin Rommel:
"Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?" – extorting an Officer during the building of Hitler's 'Atlantic Wall'.
"To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to terminate with it for skilful." – June 1942
"The boxing is going very heavily against u.s.a.. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps the well-nigh difficult
that a human being tin undergo" – November 3rd, 1942
"The enemy must exist annihilated before he reaches our master battleground. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat!" – Apr 22nd, 1944
Quotes by High german Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels:
"In 1933, a French premier ought to have said – and if I had been the French premier I would have said it: The new Reich chancellor is the man who wrote Mein Kampf, which says this and that. This human being cannot exist tolerated in our vicinity. Either he disappears or we march! But they didn't do it."
"If nosotros have ability, we'll never give it up again unless nosotros're carried out of our offices as corpses"
Quotes by High german Lieutenant-Colonel Hermann Balck:
"Schutzenregiment ane has, at 22:twoscore, taken loftier hill merely to the north of Cheveuges. Final enemy blockhouse in our hands. A complete breakthrough!" – In a wartime cable sent from the battlefield near Sedan
Quotes by German General Oberst von Armin:
"Even without the Centrolineal offensive, I should have had to capitulate by June 1st at the latest every bit I had no more food to eat." – May 1943, following the Axis give up to the Allies in Tunisia
Quotes by German language Army General Chief of Staff Franz Haldervon Armin:
"The Russian Colossus…has been underestimated by united states of america…whenever a dozen divisions are destroyed the Russians replace them with some other dozen." – Commenting on the might of the Soviet Army following the invasion of the Soviet Union
Quotes by German Armaments Magnate Gustav Krupp von Bohlen:
"Greater Germany – the dream of our fathers and grandfathers – is finally created."
WW2 Italy Quotes
Quotes by Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini:
"Fuehrer, nosotros are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian borderland at dawn today!" – (to Adolf Hitler) October 28th, 1940
"Fascism accepts the individual but insofar as his interests coincide with the state's."
"The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake."
"War alone can carry to the maximum tension all man energies and banner with the seal of nobility those people who have the courage to face information technology; Every other examination is a mere substitute." – 1930
"I've had my fill up of Hitler. These conferences chosen by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bong is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For v hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring" – To his son-in-law on June 10th, 1941
WW2 Japan Quotes
Quotes by Rear Admiral Ito, Chief of Staff of the Combined Fleet:
"A gigantic armada… has massed in Pearl Harbor. This fleet will be utterly crushed with one blow at the very beginning of hostilities…Heaven will bear witness to the righteousness of our struggle."- Nov 1941
Quotes past Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Japanese Navy
"The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand." – December viith, 1941
Quotes by General Homa:
"You are doomed… yous have already cutting rations by a half…merely your prestige and honour accept been upheld" – Speaking of General MacArthur – January 1942
Quotes by Emperor Hirohito:
"The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too apace." – 29th Apr 1942 (Speaking on his birthday)
Quotes past Major-General Kensaku Oda:
"Near of the men are stricken with dysentery…Starvation is taking many lives and it is weakening our already extended lines. Nosotros are doomed. "-(Referring to the state of Japanese troops on Guadalcanal)- 12th January 1943
Quotes past Mamoru Shigemitsu (Japanese Foreign Minister):
"Hell is on united states of america." -comments at the capture of Saipan – June 1944
Quotes by Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita:
"I will break into Leyte Gulf and fight to the concluding man…would it non be shameful to have the armada remaining intact while our nation perishes?" -1944
Quotes by General Yamashita:
"The only words I spoke to the British commander in the negotiations for the give up of Singapore were 'All I want to hear from y'all is yes or no'. I expected to put the same question to MacArthur." -at Manila – 10th October 1944
Source: http://www.worldwar2facts.org/world-war-2-quotes.html
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