World War Two Quotes:

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

source: Speech in Ottawa on January 10, 1946. "Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches". Book edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels, 1948.

topic: Peace, Hate, Military, Soldiers At War, World War 2

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

- Winston Churchill

source: "Marlborough; his life and times".

topic: Peace, War, Victory And Defeat, War Victory, World War Two

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Peace, Military, Causes Of War, World War 2

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.45, Open Road Media

topic: War, Long, Sovereign, World War Two, World War Ii

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

- Omar N. Bradley

topic: Beach, War, Hero, World War 2, Omaha

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

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, Germany, World, World War 2, World Power

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

- Benito Mussolini

source: Quoted in the Enciclopedia Italiana.

topic: War, World, Individual, World War Two, World War Ii

We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of Freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.

- George C. Marshall

source: "The Papers of George Catlett Marshall" by the George C. Marshall Foundation, Vol. 3, 1991.

topic: Military, Struggle, Hands, Overwhelming Force, Military Power

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

- Henry L. Stimson

topic: War, People, World, World War 2, World War Two

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

- Douglas MacArthur

topic: Veterans Day, Military, Soldier, Soldiers At War, Never Fade

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

- Adolf Hitler

topic: War, World, Intention, World War 1, World War Two

World War Two was a world war in space. It spread from Europe to Japan, to the Soviet Union, etc. World War Two was quite different from World War One which was geographically limited to Europe. But in the case of the Gulf War, we are dealing with a war which is extremely local in space, but global in time, since it is the first 'live' war.

- Paul Virilio

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: War, Europe, Two, World War One, World War Two

A particular type of film emerged from World War Two, with the Italian neorealist school. It was perfectly right for its time, which was as exceptional as the reality around us. Our major interest focused on that and on how we could relate to it. Later, when the situation normalized and post-war life returned to what it had been in peacetime, it became important to see the intimate, interior consequences of all that had happened.

- Michelangelo Antonioni

source: Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

topic: War, School, Reality, World War Two, Post War

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.

- Rory McIlroy

source: Source: www.bbc.co.uk

topic: War, School, Two, World War Two

What we accomplished during World War Two is just amazing. We turned our country upside down. African Americans were demanding to be given combat missions. 10% of Americans moved in order to relocate for a war job. We as a country accomplished this heroic, nearly miraculous thing, and we have this legacy of policies and agency - how did they do it? How did they fund it? How did they organize it? It is actually an example that we can borrow from very productively to guide us.

- Margaret D. Klein

topic: Country, Jobs, War, World War Two

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.

- Philip K. Dick

source: Philip K. Dick (2011). “VALIS”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Real, War, Ideas, World War Two

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.

- Al Gore

topic: Fashion, War, Sea, Renewable Resources, Civilisation

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

- Neil Simon

topic: Funny, War, Humor, World War Two

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.

- Gene Cernan

topic: Children, War, Sea, Aircraft Carriers, World War Two

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.

- Lance Armstrong

topic: Block, War, Two, World War One, World War Two

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.

- David Ayer

topic: War, Two, Order, World War Two, Parallels

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

- Frank Knox

topic: War, Fighting, Two, World War Two

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

- Douglas J. Feith

source: "A Little Learning" by Jeffrey Goldberg, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2005.

topic: War, Reading, Kids, Chamberlain, World War Two

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.

- Noam Chomsky

source: "Noam Chomsky on Venezuela - the transcript". Interview with Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2011.

topic: War, Fighting, Two, World War Two, Executive Power