Fighting Quote by Niall Ferguson

Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death.…

— Anonymous

Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had…

— Max Schmeling

Once the war began, the government could do anything 'necessary' to win it; so it was with the 'final solution of the Jewish problem,'…

— Milton Mayer

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

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus…

— Joichi Ito

Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was...What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left…

— Graves B. Erskine

“it was the horror of the two world wars—Verdun, the Somme, Hiroshima—that led to our own era’s questioning of the tragic view of war.…

— Victor Davis Hanson

You look at the Russian side: They're defending their territory from the beginning. They move west to destroy the Nazis. And they take out…

— Oliver Stone

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of…

— Anonymous

In 1918, Germany suffered the ghastly consequences of defeat; France suffered those of victory, the price of which was to divide and embitter French…

— Michael Korda

It was necessary to close the front against Germany and that it (victory) depended on us whether it was to be closed or not.

— Kliment Voroshilov

Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is, went from…

— Jimmy Doolittle