Country Quote by Christopher Vokes

“The real trick lies in losing wars, in knowing which wars can be lost. Italy has been losing wars for centuries, and just see…

— Joseph Heller

I've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving her. If…

— Ugo Cavallero

“The real trick lies in losing wars, in knowing which wars can be lost. Italy has been losing wars for centuries, and just see…

— Joseph Heller

Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it…

— Adolf Galland

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

In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.

— Kelly Miller

“Take away Churchill in 1940...Nazism would have prevailed. Hitler would have achieved what no other tyrant, not even Napoleon, had ever achieved: mastery of…

— Charles Krauthammer

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

Hitler was the fate of Germany and this fate could not be stayed.

— Walther von Brauchitsch

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the…

— Gianni Agnelli

Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer…

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

If anyone in the E.U. thinks Italy should keep being a landing point and refugee camp, they have misunderstood.

— Matteo Salvini