Second World War Quotes

117 quotes by 103 authors

We are the people who won the Second World War and saved the world. We went to the moon. We gave the world the cell… — Brian Williams
We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women… — Fidel Castro
Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend. — George Carlin
I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining reference point for… — Antony Beevor
The second world war claimed tens of millions of victims — Jean-Marie Le Pen
Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed. — Patrick Macnee
Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and… — Aleksander Kwasniewski
For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in… — Ernst Zundel
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about… — Stephen Ambrose
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory… — Donald Barthelme
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic… — Angela Carter
When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches for the front.… — Sergei Prokofiev
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down Londonâ€™s mall for Queen Victoriaâ€™s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain… — Mark Steyn
With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki,… — Pope John Paul II
More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost… — Carol Vorderman
What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a… — Bernard Levin
After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit'… — Dave Brubeck
The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians. — Traian Basescu
My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll. — Georgie Fame
Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation… — Christopher Heyerdahl

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