"We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time, or as the greatest criminals." - Josef Goebbel, Minister of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda (before he committed suicide)

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"Don't fire until you can see the whites of their eyes." - Major Devereux (the battle of Wake Island, 1941)

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"They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells." - President Franklin D. Roosevelt (addressing women's contributions to the war)

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"I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by a ringing of a bell are not to my liking; the bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring." - Benito Mussolini, Fascist Dictator (To his son in law on June 10th, 1941)

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"Nuts" - General MacAuliffe (when asked to surrender during the Battle of the Bulge, 1944)

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"Today we may say aloud before an awe-struck world: We are still masters of our fate. We are still captain of our souls." - Prime Minister Winston Churchill

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"When I said that British fighter-bombers had shot up my tanks with 40mm shells, the Reichsmarschall who felt himself touched by this, said: 'That's completely impossible. The Americans only know how to make razor blades.' I replied: 'We could do with some of those razor blades, Herr Reichsmarshall."
Field Marshall Erwin Rommel

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"I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, upon learning of the success of the attack on Pearl Harbor

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"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

General George S. Patton, Jr.,
in Patton by Francis Ford Coppola

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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
Winston Churchill (speaking about the Royal Air Force)

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"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

Winston Churchill

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