How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the…

“Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read…

— Milan Kundera

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are…

— Josh Lieb

I am encyclopaedic on World War II. My dad took me to D-Day beaches when I was a kid. I was there four years…

— Eddie Izzard

And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.

— Winston Churchill

“No thoughts had I of anything, Or at least that's what I thought; I even thought I couldn't think, But now I think I…

— Christopher Miller

Never in history has the navy landed an army at the planned time and place. But if you land us anywhere within 50 miles…

— George S. Patton

[D-Day] means to me a beginning of the freedom of Europe. The freedom was the achievement of the military adversaries of the Germans.

— Manfred Rommel

“Sixty-five years ago [written 2009], in a brief lull between storms in a remarkably stormy June, even by the standards of Channel weather, the…

— G.M.W. Wemyss

This was very, very scary, doomsday legislation for business. When the House bill passed, I realized it needs to be all hands on board.…

— David Penry

We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt…

— George S. Patton

This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that's the way it's going to be.…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Some comments called for the inclusion of an anti-skimming device that would block unauthorized connections with the readable chip to gain access to the…

— Ray Everett-Church

President Bush paid homage Wednesday to World War II veterans of Normandy at the D-Day Memorial. Later that night, his twin daughters paid a…

— Argus Hamilton

There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the…

— Barbara Kingsolver