The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
— Winston Churchill
Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
— Joseph Stalin
They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The waiting for history to be made was the most difficult. I spent much time in prayer.
— Private Clair Galdonik
They’re murdering us here. Let’s move inland and get murdered.
— Colonel Charles D. Canham
You get your ass on the beach. I’ll be there waiting for you and I’ll tell you what to do. There ain’t anything in this plan that is going to go right.
— Colonel Paul R. Goode
There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. When you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the great World War II, you can look him straight in the eye and say, ‘Son, your granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a son-of-a-goddamned-bitch named Georgie Patton!'
— Gen. George S. Patton
The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I'd not seen that in England.
