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Uncommon valor was a common virtue
- Admiral Chester Nimitz, after the capture of Iwo Jima
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Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, how I love it.
- General George Patton
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An intellectual desert
- Hans Frank, referring to Poland
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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
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In war there is no subsitute for victory
- General Douglas MacArthur
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In war there is no second place for the runner-up
- General Omar Bradley
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As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan
- Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's Foreign Secretary
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But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far
- Lt. General F. Browning about Operation Market Garden
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In starting and waging war, it is not right that matters,
but victory
- Adolf Hitler
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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
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Why should I demoralize him (the enemy) by military means if I can do so better and more cheaply in other ways
- Adolf Hitler
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