Britain Quote by Bertrand Russell

I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German…

— Pierre Laval

If the Britain and France had done what they were obliged to do under the treaty and sent troops to enforce the treaty when…

— Graham T. Allison

... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of…

— Franz Halder

It seemed to me singularly ill-contrived for the British government to be going to war with Hitler when Hitler might have been about to…

— Maurice Cowling

It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I…

— John Amery

Just imagine going to war over Danzig - such a world catastrophe, just to prevent Germany from getting a piece of territory that belonged…

— Joachim von Ribbentrop

The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled…

— Barbara Tuchman

I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to…

— Winston Churchill

The fact is that Britain is the most warlike nation on earth. In the history of armed combat, we are the only democracy to…

— Jeremy Clarkson

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they…

— Neil Sheehan

I think my father [ Erwin Rommel] would have given the same answer. The British and Americans and the French were too strong, too…

— Manfred Rommel

I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question,…

— Parker Stevenson