Quotes about World War II

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Quotes about World War II

The war is won, but the peace is not.

Albert Einstein - December 1945

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Peace Cold War 1945

When the action is over and we look back, we understand both more and less. This much is certain. Before the Doolittle raid, America knew nothing but defeat. After it, there was hope of victory. Japan realized, for the first time, they could lose and began to pull back. America realized, that she would win and surged forward. It was a war, that changed America and the world. Dorie Miller was the first black American to be awarded the Navy Cross. But he would not be the last. He joined a brotherhood of heroes. World War II, for us, began at Pearl Harbor, and 1.177 men still lie entombed in the battleship Arizona. America suffered, but America grew stronger. It was not inevitable. The times tried our souls, and through the trial, we overcame.

Evelyn Johnson in Pearl Harbor

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In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Queen Elizabeth II

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Trump: "North Korea, we're not in a war. We have a good relationship. People don't understand, having a good relationship with leaders of other countries is a good thing."
Biden: "We had a good relationship with Hitler before he invaded Europe. Come on!"

Joe Biden - October 2020, second United States presidential debate

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Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

Franklin D. Roosevelt - December 1941

But let all strive without failing in faith or in duty, and the dark curse of Hitler will be lifted from our age.

Winston Churchill - July 1940

Adolf Hitler 1940

You ask what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. 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 - May 1940

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, and even if, which I do not for a moment 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, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

Winston Churchill - June 1940

Once upon a time, Russians and Ukranians fought together hand in hand to stop the murderous regime of national socialist Germany.

Olaf Scholz - May 2022

Russia-Ukraine War

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Winston Churchill - 1940

1940 Armed Forces Day

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Winston Churchill - 1941, zu einem Bündnis mit Stalin

Adolf Hitler Devil 1941

You will not f*ck with my children's future. You will not destroy the freedoms my grandfather fought two world wars to defend.

Hugh Grant - August 2019, about Boris Johnson

You read in any war stories - World War II, whatever - that there are many, many heroes. There are the main stories you always hear about, but there are all these other little people that did things that were very important that we don't always know about.

Dave Filoni

There's no question in my mind that those people want to have a war. They're determined to be a world power and seem to feel that's the only way to become one. Those storm troopers are awesome. The atmosphere in Berlin - well, I've never sensed such tension.

Gary Cooper

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When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

Jimmy Carter

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat.

Richard Nixon

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Ronald Reagan

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Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Cecelia Ahern in P.S. I Love You

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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

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Understanding Peace Volkstrauertag

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

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Bob Marley had this idea. It was kind of a virologist idea. He believed that you could cure racism and hate... literally cure it, by injecting music and love into people's lives. When he was scheduled to perform at a peace rally, a gunman came to his house and shot him down. Two days later he walked out on that stage and sang. When they asked him why - he said, "The people, who were trying to make this world worse... are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness."

Robert Neville in I Am Legend

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There is no "way to peace," there is only "peace".

Mahatma Gandhi

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Oh, great warrior? Wars not make one great.

Master Yoda in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

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I don't want to be in a battle, but waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.

Pippin Took in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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They got money for the war, but can't feed the poor.

2Pac

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War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other.

Niko Bellic in GTA - Grand Theft Auto - IV

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I was a warrior who dreamed he could bring peace. Sooner or later though, you always have to wake up.

Jake Sully in Avatar -

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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

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Optimism Pessimism

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Winston Churchill (on his 75th birthday)

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

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Success Beginning Motivation

This is a war to end all wars.

Woodrow Wilson - 1917

This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.

Erich Maria Remarque in All Quiet on the Western Front

The bigger the lie, the more people believe in it.

Adolf Hitler

If we win, we don't have to explain ourselves. If we lose, there's nothing to explain.

Adolf Hitler

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

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Reason & Sanity Imagination

Every night I watch the sunset and soak up every last ray of its warmth, and send it from my heart to yours.

Evelyn Johnson in Pearl Harbor

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Love declerations Sunset Evening

I hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge.

Queen Elizabeth II (as Queen of the United Kingdom) - April 2020

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Our final goal must be to create the United States of Europe.

Konrad Adenauer

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Europe European Union

It's been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president. I love the job - but I love my country more.

Joe Biden - August 2024

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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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