Uncommon valor was a common virtue
- Admiral Chester Nimitz, after the capture of Iwo Jima

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, how I love it.
- General George Patton

An intellectual desert
- Hans Frank, referring to Poland

Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those who are going to die. Now let's get the hell out of here
- Colonel George Taylor at Omaha Beach

In war there is no subsitute for victory
- General Douglas MacArthur

In war there is no second place for the runner-up
- General Omar Bradley

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan
- Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's Foreign Secretary

But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far
- Lt. General F. Browning about Operation Market Garden

In starting and waging war, it is not right that matters,
but victory
- Adolf Hitler

Believe me, Lang, the first twenty-four hours of the invasion will be decisive…for the Allies as well as Germany it will be the longest day
- Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, April 1944

Why should I demoralize him (the enemy) by military means if I can do so better and more cheaply in other ways
- Adolf Hitler