Quotes on World War 2

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

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

The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in four or five 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.

The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world.

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.

As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.

This is a fight between a free world and a slave world.

The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.

There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child-is in action, and will be privileged to remain in action throughout this war. That front is right here at home, in our daily lives, and in our daily tasks.

The eyes of the world are upon you.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.