David Lloyd George Quotes

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.

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

World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing.

To-day the Peace Treaty was ratified at Paris; the War is over. A terrible era begins for Europe, like the gathering of clouds before a storm, and it will end in an explosion probably more terrible than that of the World War. In Germany there are all the signs of a continuing growth of nationalism.

Britain and America won the last world war. We will win the next world war.

The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

I played in bombed-out houses and grew up with the ever-present consequences of a lost war and the awareness that my own country had inflicted terrible pain on many nations during the horrific World War II.

War is declared against Japan, German and Italy.

World War II was the last 'pure' war. It was purely heroic. There was someone who tried to conquer the world, who tried to exterminate people.

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.

In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.

If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory.

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.

When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable.

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

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now have someone from the generation drafted at the close of the war.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

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

I think this could be our best victory over Germany since the war.

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.