Harry Browne Quotes

Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The end of World War II was not to be a compromise; it was to come about from the total annihilation of the enemies' ability and will to make war.

To those who are incapable of presenting the historic truth in an honest way, I want to say that Poland was not a perpetrator but a victim of World War Two.

World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us.

Most people learn all about the Second World War in school, or else, they see so many films put out by Hollywood, that it's easy to think we know exactly what happened.

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.

If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

Nineteen forty-five marked the nadir of Western Civilization.

In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.

After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.

The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines.

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved.

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

The Atlantic conference in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland is a dramatic moment in World War II history because for the first time, Roosevelt and Churchill are meeting face to face in this war.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.

The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

World War II really fascinated me because it's the only time that everybody in this country sat down at the same table, because eating on rations was your patriotic duty.