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"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."
— Winston Churchill, 1 October 1939


"Fellow Australians

It is my melancholy duty to inform you officially that, in persistence by Germany in her invasion of Poland, Great Britain is at war, and that, as a result, Australia is also at war...

There was never any doubt as to where Great Britain stood... There can be no doubt that were Great Britain stands, there stands the people of the entire British world."
— Prime Minister Robert Menzies, 3 September 1939


"I said, to the people of the Philippines whence I came, I shall return. Tonight, I repeat those words: I shall return!"
— Douglas MacArthur, 30 March 1942


"As soon as the idea was introduced that all men were equal before God, that world was bound to collapse."
— Adolf Hitler, 26 February 1942.


"All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters, either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain."
— George S. Patton, 5 June 1944


"No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer."
— Hermann Göring, September, 1939


"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 8 December 1941


"This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note, stating that, unless we heard from them by 11 o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received and that consequently this country is at war with Germany."
— Neville Chamberlain, 3 September 1939


"The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler."
— William Joyce, 2 August 1940


"The moment the first American soldier sets foot on the Japanese mainland, all prisoners of war will be shot."
— Hideki Tojo, June, 1945
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