Tom Hanks Quotes

From 1941 to 1945 we won a war by enlisting the whole-hearted support of all our people and all our resources.

And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.

But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

In World War II, the book you have in front of you, it was said and it is probably true, that there was not a single American who did not know the name of somebody serving in uniform.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny.

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.

I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.

The Yanks are coming And we won’t come back till it’s over Over there!

My attitude toward the war [WWI] was that it must be won at all costs.

The certain way to victory...lies in making everything on Imperial soil contribute to the war effort...combining the total material and spiritual strength of the nation...

Remember this about the Korean War: The men were drafted; the women volunteered.

A lot of my father's family in Canada volunteered in the First World War because they saw it as a war that was defending the mother country.

Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.

With no draft, the only people who went to war were those who wanted to, or at least those who wanted to join the military.

If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort.

I needed to join the Navy. 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.

The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the greatest conflagration in human history - on our behalf.

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.

As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.

When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.

What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?

No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing.

Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.