16 Movie Quotes about World War 2 (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 19, 2025

Memorable quotes about world war 2, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Well, I also feel it's about time someone knocked the axis back on its heels. -Excuse me, baby. What she means is, it's about time somebody knocked those heels back on their axis.

Humphrey Bogart as Alfred "Gloves" Donahue in All Through the Night (1942)

2 I wrote a biography on Admiral Halsey called The Fighting Sailor, about naval combat tactics. -I know this book. Your conclusions were all wrong, Ryan. Halsey acted stupidly.

Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan; Sean Connery as Marko Ramius in The Hunt for Red October

3 The Second World War involved every continent on the globe, and men turned to science for new devices of warfare, which reached an unparalleled peak in their capacity for destruction.

Gene Barry as Dr. Clayton Forrester in The War of the Worlds (1953)

4 With the coming of the Second World War many eyes in imprisoned Europe turned hopefully, or desperately toward the freedom of the Americas.

Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine in Casablanca (1942)

5 So, 1100 men went into the water, 316 men come out. The sharks took the rest, June 29, 1945.

Roy Scheider as Chief Martin Brody in Jaws

6 Do my share for my country. Live up to what Grandpa did in the first war, and Dad did in the second.

Charlie Sheen as Private Chris Taylor in Platoon

7 At first, we lose in Second World War. I don't say that you Americans win, but we lose.

Marlon Brando as Colonel Walter Kurtz in Apocalypse Now

8 The Americans, in... 1945, yes, after the Japanese War, your President Roosevelt didn't want the French people to stay in Indochina.

Marlon Brando as Colonel Walter Kurtz in Apocalypse Now

9 And even before the Second World War, the Americans knew exactly what was going on.

Marlon Brando as Colonel Walter Kurtz in Apocalypse Now

10 In the Second World War, he flew a bomber in the Ploiesti oilfield raid.

John Wayne as Dan Roman in The High and the Mighty (1954)

16 Movie Quotes about World War 2 (+ Sound Clips)

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