Attack Quote by Frederick Banting

“With proper and prudent recognition of their limited war potential, the British hoped to avoid a frontal attack on the Continent. They preferred a…

— Ladislas Farago

The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

... 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

The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they…

— Galeazzo Ciano

The German air offensives against British cities in World Wars I and II not only failed to coerce the United Kingdom to surrender, but…

— John Mearsheimer

I considered the attacks on London useless, and I told the Fuhrer again and again that inasmuch as I knew the English people as…

— Hermann Goring

We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again.

— Al Murray

For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I…

— Anonymous

I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier. It therefore seems…

— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.

— Wilhelm Keitel

We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war.

— Anastas Mikoyan

If British troops are committed to action, then the nation will, of course, support them. Their courage and skill is not in doubt.

— Charles Kennedy