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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

The unipolar world is coming to an end. The West is incapable of single-handedly ruling the world. The world stands at a historical milestone ahead of the most dangerous and important decade since World War II.

We don’t accept the principle of spheres of influence … the very concept of spheres of influence should have been retired after World War II.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

While the bipartisan political and media class has spent decades insisting, and still insists, that the core foreign policy goal of the U.S. is to defend freedom and democracy and fight tyranny around the world, the indisputable reality is the exact opposite: propping up the world’s most brutal dictators who serve U.S. interests has been a staple of U.S. foreign policy since at least the end of World War II.

Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle.

Russia’s attack on Ukraine constitutes the gravest security crisis on the European continent since World War II […] We cannot tolerate the authoritarian bullying and danger that Putin poses.

As the largest European conflict since WWII rages on, there’s one group who is thriving: defense contractors.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.

The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly.

Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.

Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!

Let no man surrender so long as he is unwounded and can fight.

The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.

I’ve had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring

In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost…the bombing and the hardships that resulted from them did not weaken the morale of the populace.

The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.

Air superiority is a condition for all operations, at sea, in land, and in the air.

It would have been easier to fight alone with inadequate forces than to have to accept…responsibility for our ally’s lack of fighting qualities and dubious loyalty.

Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.

They fought together as brothers in arms; they died together and now they sleep side by side. To them we have a solemn obligation.

Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is as necessary to us in our continuing forward movement toward final victory as it was vital to the enemy in staving off ultimate defeat.

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil.

Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world.

We must not again underestimate the Japanese.

No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.

Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.