World War 1 Quotes

Today we rule Germany, tomorrow, the world.

The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly.

Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.

Air superiority is a condition for all operations, at sea, in land, and in the air.

When you say that after World War I there was a pandemic that killed more people than the war itself, most will say: "Wait, are you kidding? I know World War I, but there was no World War 1.5, was there?" But people were traveling around after the war, and that meant the force of infection was much higher. And the problem is that the rate of travel back then was dramatically less than what we have nowadays.

Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.

History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.

Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the 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

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

War is organized murder, and nothing else.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

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.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.

Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan... We will gain the inevitable triumph so help us God.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

...let men express the intense admiration, which I share with all other Americans, of the record made by the Marines.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below

In Flanders fields the poppies blow.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.