This collection holds 191 second world war quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Jean-Marie Le Pen, Norman Davies and Jeremy Irvine.

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The second world war claimed tens of millions of victims.

The Russian myths of the Second World War are still intact.

I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.

We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

I'm really into very 'naive craft,' like Second World War playing cards.

For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.

The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It's worthless.

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films.

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

I didn't realise the depth of horror that happened in the Second World War every day.

The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines.

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.

My father had been a Wehrmacht officer in the second world war and was a violent and damaged man.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the second world war.

This unprecedented crisis, which is without doubt the worst since the second world war, is not over.

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.

The one thing that I'm most proud of, during the Second World War, I worked on airplanes in a defense plant.

You read 'Stalingrad' by Antony Beevor because you're interested in the Second World War or Russia or whatever.

Without any doubt, the Iranian threat is the biggest threat facing the Jewish people since the Second World War.

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War.

We can say that Japan is the only country that calls into question the outcome of the Second World War; no one else does.

After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.

The U.S. dropped more high explosives on Vietnam than the Allies used on Germany and Japan together in the Second World War.

The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians.

American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.

I studied history at university, so I'm always quite fascinated by the Second World War and France. That's one of my interests.

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

A film centered around the Second World War with a predominantly white cast would not have the pressure on it that 'Red Tails' has.

I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.

Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different.

The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism.

From the ruins of the second world war, Labour rebuilt Britain and set it on course for European co-operation and membership of the E.U.

The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.

As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.

I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.

The social safety net was created by a united society in the aftermath of the Second World War. It came out of a British sense of fairness.

My grandfather came to Canada from Romania just before the Second World War, already in debt after buying his boat ticket on borrowed dime.

Aside from his other achievements, Winston Churchill wrote a six-volume, 1.9m-word account of the second world war and his role in winning it.

To those who don't know the historical truth, I would like to say today, Poland was not an aggressor but a victim during the Second World War.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at it.

Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.

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