For it is the doom of men, that they forget

"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

27 Nov 1941


"Gentlemen, I am hardening to this enterprise."

Winston Churchill

St. Paul’s School, Kensington

15 May 1944


"He either fears his fate too much,
Or his desserts are small,
Who fears to put it to the touch,
To gain or lose it all."

Montrose's Toast


"We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they get whipped, the quicker we can go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that paper-hanging son-of-a-bitch Hitler."

Lieutenant General George S. Patton

5 June 1944


"I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Supreme Allied Commander

5 June 1944


"No, we’ll start the war from right here."

Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

Utah Beach

6 June 1944

(on being notified that his division had landed in the wrong sector)


"URGENT. Sir, it is at times difficult to admit one is wrong, but I have the great pleasure of doing so on this occasion. Casualties are dramatically below my estimates. I congratulate you on your command decision, and apologize for adding to the Supreme Commander's worries."

Air Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory

6 June 1944


"We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so that we may always be free."

Ronald W. Reagan

Normandy

6 June 1984