World War Two Quotes

It may come as a surprise but I also really started to get into history while I was at school. I found the projects about World War Two fascinating – perhaps when I get the time again, I could pick up where I left off.

In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Concentration of executive power, unless it’s very temporary and for specific circumstances, let’s say fighting world war two, it’s an assault on democracy.

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died…every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.

I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.

History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.

If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice.

If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there’s this huge block in World War One with no winners, and there’s another block in World War Two. And then it seems like there’s another world war.

Basically, Sherri’s idea had to do with bringing Fat’s mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank.

It was a distortion, a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience, Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achieve.

Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.

Germany must either be a world power or there will be no Germany