"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't."Įisenhower, commander of allied troops in Europe, delivered this message to allied forces just before they embarked on the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944: Patton achieved legendary status during World War II, and his plainspoken style endeared him to U.S. "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." In August of that year, the prime minister spoke of the sacrifices many British pilots had already made: "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.' " For without victory there is no survival."Ī month later in June, Churchill rallied the British not long after France fell to Germany: Victory however long and hard the road may be.
"You ask what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." In his first speech as the British prime minister before the House of Commons in May 1940, Churchill made clear his commitment to the cause: His decisive and defiant addresses inspired a nation teetering on the brink. Perhaps no leader in history used oratory more effectively than Churchill during World War II. We know now that a nation can have peace with the Nazis only at the price of total surrender." There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness.
"No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. In that same speech, FDR discussed what had become increasingly clear: appeasing Adolf Hitler and the Nazi government in Germany was not a rational policy.
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