The 35+ Most Famous WW2 Quotes

Famous WW2 Quotes – There are many prominent points of history, and World War II was one of them. Several historical figures are noted for their involvement in the war. Many of these figures have also delivered their share of impactful statements. While bot every person in the war was recognized, there are some lines that have become famous over time. If you are someone who loves history, here are some Famous WW2 Quotes you may like:

• “This war is a new kind of war. It is warfare in terms of every continent, every island, every sea, every air lane in the world.”
  – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  
• “Germany must either be a world power or there will be no Germany”
  – Adolf Hitler
  
• “I shall say it again and again and again. Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.”
  – Franklin D. Roosevelt 
  
• “The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.”
  – General Dwight D. Eisenhower
  
• “We are now in this war. We are all in it, all the way.”
  – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  
• “If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn’t thinking.”
  – General George Patton
  
• “The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly.”
  – Emperor Hirohito of Japan
  
• “I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
  – Winston Churchill
  
• “Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.”
  – General George S. Patton
  
• “Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened. He will fight savagely.” 
  – General Dwight D. Eisenhower 
  
• “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.”
  – General Douglas MacArthur
  
• “As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.”
  – Albert Einstein
  
• “Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?”
  – German General Erwin Rommel
  
• “Boys, if you ever pray, pray for me now.”
  – Harry S. Truman
  
• “Loose lips [might] sink ships.”
  – Wartime Propaganda Slogan

Additional Famous WW2 Quotes

• “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
  – Winston Churchill 
  
• “Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever.”
  – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  
• “Never in the field of human conflict, has so much, been owed by so many, to so few!”
  – Winston Churchill
  
• “Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.”
  – Adolf Hitler
  
• “We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations.”
  – Winston Churchill 
  
• “If we have power, we’ll never give it up again unless we’re carried out of our offices as corpses”
  – German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels
  
• “Greater Germany – the dream of our fathers and grandfathers – is finally created.”
  – German Armaments Magnate Gustav Krupp von Bohlen
  
• “Good night, then – sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning 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 will shine the dawn.”
  – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
  
• “Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.”
  – Arthur “Bomber” Harris
  
• “Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory.”
  – King George VI
  
• “Force is the only language they understand, like bullies.”
  – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  
• “How horrible, how fantastic, how 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.”
  – British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
  
• “In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.” 
  – British General Bernard Law Montgomery
  
• “You hold in your hands the future of the world.”
  – President Raymond Poincare
  
• “The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and death.”
  –  Leningrad Party Committee Head Andrei Zhdanov

Other Quotes from World War II

• “I have seen war…I hate war.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  
• “I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died…every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.”
  – Lieutenant General Omar Bradley
  
• “Germany having seized the prey, Soviet Russia will seize that part of the carcass that Germany cannot use. It will play the noble role of hyena to the German lion.”
  – The New York Times
  
• “War alone can carry to the maximum tension all human energies and imprint with the seal of nobility those people who have the courage to confront it; Every other test is a mere substitute.”
  –  Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini
  
• “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.”
  – Charles de Gaulle
  
• “The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.”
  – Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

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