Alexis Quote by David Frum

While the Second World War brought about untold misery and suffering, it was also a time when the world witnessed extraordinary bravery. Through the…

— Sam Kutesa

“There have been ample opportunities since 1945 to show that material superiority in war is not enough if the will to fight is lacking.…

— Richard Overy

You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the vantage point of quarter century in…

— Charles Lindbergh

“Less than twenty years after the end of the Great War, the ‘war to end wars’ as it had come to be called at…

— John Keegan

“The fact that France and Britain did go on to win the war preserved their great-power status, but to a very considerable extent they…

— James L. Stokesbury

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

History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.

— Mildred Cable

“Victory in war does not depend entirely upon numbers or mere courage; only skill and discipline will insure it.”

— Flavius Vegetius Renatus

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must…

— Joe Baca

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

— Ludwig von Mises

“World War II did more than usher in unparalleled prosperity for the United States. It transformed America's foreign relations. The war devastated the Axis…

— James T. Patterson

“War, on the other hand, was the result of failure; failure of diplomacy, failure of intelligence, failure to prepare, failure to act decisively when…

— Col Don Wilson