“The Hoboken waterfront was still familiar to me from earlier years when I walked along River Street on my way to catch… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives. — Ernst Hanfstaengl Copy Share Image
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by… — William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim Copy Share Image
History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union. — Henry L. Stimson Copy Share Image
We shall solve this problem, and afterwards Warsaw as the Capital and the pool of intelligentsia of that nation will be destroyed. — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“It seemed impossible that men with hearts and brains were capable of it. Such devastation of cities, so many innocent lives lost.… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning. — David M. Shoup Copy Share Image
Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“It's a good thing we won the war. If we hadn't, I'd be hanged as a war criminal" -- Gen Curtis LeMay,… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“Long ago she'd clamped an iron shell around her heart and nothing and no one could pry it lose, but deep inside… — Sarah Sundin Copy Share Image
The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years. — James Forrestal Copy Share Image
“ I was on one of my world 'walkabouts.' It had taken me once more through Hong Kong, to Japan, Australia, and… — Timothy James Dean Copy Share Image
“It was difficult to understand him. On the one hand he pandered even to the most unimportant things while on the other… — Heinz Linge Copy Share Image
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
