War & Crisis

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in."

"I am not fighting for empire or wealth, but as an ordinary woman who has lost her freedom, whose body has been tortured, and whose daughters have been outraged."

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

"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.'"

"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."

"It is much easier to make war than to make peace."

"Has the last word been said? Must hope disappear? Is defeat final? No! Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished."

"We have resolved to pave the way for a grand peace for all the generations to come by enduring the unendurable and suffering what is unsufferable."

"We must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself."

"Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

"Yesterday, December 7th, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked."

"Freedom and fear are at war. The advance of human freedom—the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time—now depends on us."

"I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!"

"I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death."

"Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us."

"It is us today. It will be you tomorrow."

"I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."

"All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

"It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States."

"I have not yet begun to fight!"

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in."

"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."

"Soldiers of my Old Guard: I bid you farewell. For twenty years I have constantly accompanied you on the road to honor and glory."

"My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time."

"Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time."

"Victory is not achieved through numerical superiority, but through unity of spirit, discipline, and steadfast patience under heat and fatigue."

"Against all odds and doom-and-gloom scenarios, Ukraine didn't fall. Ukraine is alive and kicking."

"Do not lose faith in the ultimate victory of our righteous cause."

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

"The program of the world's peace, therefore, is our program; and that program, the only possible program, as we see it, is this."