Rick Riordan Quotes

We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.

Many people are beginning to wonder who they should fear most - the Roosevelt-Churchill combination or the Hitler-Mussolini combination.

Hitler's Europe Yes, welcome to Hitler's Europe... Come on, human race - for our children's sake if not our own. This is wakey, wakey time.

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

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.

There's something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me in the strangest way.

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.

Had he been victorious, Hitler himself could hardly have demanded more.

The time has come for you to decide whether Italians shall die for Mussolini and Hitler, or live for Italy and for civilization.

Think of the prelude to World War Two. Think of all the countries that said, well, we don’t have enough evidence. I mean, Mein Kampf had been written. Hitler had indicated what he intended to do. The people who argued for waiting for more evidence have to ask themselves how they are going to feel at that point where another event occurs.

The idea of joining the Germans attracts him [Mussolini], but I must fight to the end Otherwise it mean the ruin of the country, the ruin of Fascism and the ruin of Il Duce himself.

Italy would by saved only if Mussolini went crazy and crawled on all fours..

I served in World War II in our fight to defeat fascism.

Jack Buck fought through Europe during World War II.

Sixty years ago this week Hitler invaded Poland. This led to the creation of The History Channel.

Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.

Hitler decided that Mussolini must be freed from the Italian Partisans because Benito was his friend and had acted in good faith.

The craziest of all political systems, the unique leader state, has found its deserved end. History will note for eternity that the German people were not able on their own initiative to shake off the yoke of the National Socialists. The victory of the Americans, English, and Russians was a necessary occurrence to destroy the National Socialists' delusions and plans for world domination.

Mr. Hitler was big on me. He kept writing and inviting me to come to Germany, and if the war hadn't started when it did, I would have gone and I would have taken a gun out of my purse and shot him, because I am the only person who would not have been searched.

These days we dimly believe that the Second World War was won with Russian blood and American money; and though that is in some ways true, it is also true that, without Churchill, Hitler would almost certainly have won.

Hitler, who founded the Third Reich, who ruled it ruthlessly and often with uncommon shrewdness, who led it to such dizzy heights and such a sorry end, was a person of undoubted, if evil genius. It is true that in the German people, as a mysterious Providence and centuries of experience had molded them up to that time, he found a natural instrument which he was able to shape to his own sinister ends.

Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?

You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east. Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony. So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.

Obviously the government of [Mussolini's] time, out of fear that German power might lead to complete victory, preferred to ally itself with Hitler's Germany rather than opposing it. The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well.

...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire.