Quotes About Allies

Allied powers provided for their own peoples levels of nourishment which they denied to others, including societies notionally under their protection.

THE EXPERIENCE OF WAR was extraordinarily diverse. The Eastern Front, where 90 percent of all Germans killed in combat met their fate, overwhelmingly dominated the struggle against Hitler. Between 1941 and 1944, British and American sailors and airmen fought at sea and in the sky, but relatively small numbers of Western Allied ground troops engaged the Axis in North Africa, Italy, Asia and the Pacific.

The Soviet Union suffered 65 percent of all Allied military deaths, China 23 percent, Yugoslavia 3 percent, the United States and Britain 2 percent each, France and Poland 1 percent each. About 8 percent of all Germans died, compared with 2 percent of Chinese, 3.44 percent of Dutch people, 6.67 percent of Yugoslavs, 4 percent of Greeks, 1.35 percent of French, 3.78 percent of Japanese, 0.94 percent of British and 0.32 percent of Americans.

The Russians eventually killed more than 4.5 million German soldiers, while American and British ground and air forces accounted for only about 500,000.

The U.S. ambassador in London, Joseph Kennedy, shrugged and said to his Polish counterpart: "Where on earth can the Allies fight the Germans and beat them?" Though Kennedy was a shameless anglophobe, appeaser and defeatist, his question was valid, and the Allied governments had no good answer to it.

But the collective contribution of U.S. and British cryptanalysts to the war effort was greater than that of any other such small body of men in history. Their operations provided the supreme example of the Western Allies' imaginative integration into the war effort of their cleverest civilian intellects.

The Soviet Union suffered 65 percent of all Allied military deaths, China 23 percent, Yugoslavia 3 percent, the United States and Britain 2 percent each, France and Poland 1 percent each.

Everywhere in Asia life is infused with a few terrible certainties—hunger, indignity, and violence." This was the world Americans perceived themselves advancing to save, not merely from the Japanese, but from imperialists of every hue—including their closest allies, the British.

I have now reigned above fifty years in victory or peace," said the Caliph Abd al-Rahman I, the eighth-century ruler of Iberia, "beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot; they amount to fourteen.

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

You therefore should start right away to identify those whose support is essential for your success, and to figure out how to line them up on your side.

A NEW AGE OF DRAGONS IS ABOUT TO BEGIN. THE POWERFUL CREATURES WILL RETURN TO RULE THE WORLD ONCE MORE, BUT THIS TIME WILL BE DIFFERENT. THIS TIME, THEY WILL HAVE ALLIES. WHO WILL HELP THEM? AROUND THE WORLD, SOME YOUNG HUMANS ARE MAKING A STRANGE DISCOVERY. THEY ARE LEARNING THAT THEY WERE BORN WITH DRAGON BLOOD — BLOOD THAT GIVES THEM AMAZING POWERS.

Private investors traditionally had been obliged to take losses when debtors defaulted, but it became apparent that the U.S. Government was not about to relinquish its creditor hold on the Allies. This intransigence obliged them to keep tightening the screws on Germany.

where we found enemies, beings who would not submit to us. Alfheim, where we found sometime-allies. And Midgard, where we found worshipers and foot soldiers for our armies.

The first rule of gunfights was: "Bring a gun." But the second was: "Bring all of your friends who have guns.

And when that time comes, let's hope your friends outnumber your enemies.

The honor of a nation has to actually come from the nation, though, and its representatives. History will record it and our allies will remember it, as will our adversaries.

In making us work for its goals, society is assisted by some powerful allies: our biological needs and our genetic conditioning.

Allies on whom you could not rely were sometimes worse than no allies at all.

Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.

Rechazamos el sostenido deterioro de las relaciones internacionales con nuestros aliados tradicionales, a cambio de buscar vínculos con gobiernos no democráticos. Por estas y muchas otras razones exigimos la dimisión del presidente, por fascista y totalitario y por ser una amenaza para la democracia y la soberanía de Venezuela.

Since predation must be supported out of the surplus of production, it is necessarily true that the class constituting the State—the full-time bureaucracy (and nobility)—must be a rather small minority in the land, although it may, of course, purchase allies among important groups in the population. Therefore, the chief task of the rulers is always to secure the active or resigned acceptance of the majority of the citizens.8, 9 Of

I guess the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

He imagined the Indians as useful allies in fulfilling English aspirations, possible trading partners, and subordinate, to be sure, but above all a natural resource to be exploited for the greater good.