“People of Western Europe: A landing was made this morning on the coast of France by troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force. This landing is part of the concerted United Nations plan for the liberation of Europe, made in conjunction with our great Russian allies…. I call upon all who love freedom to stand with us now. Together we shall achieve victory.Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The German dictator, instead of snatching the victuals from the table, has been content to have them served to him course by course.Winston Churchill
“The Hitlerite blackguards… have turned Europe into a prison of nations, and this they call the new order in Europe.Joseph Stalin
“We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.Franklin D. Roosevelt
““Not in vain” may be the pride of those who have survived and the epitaph of those who fell.Winston Churchill
“Over hill, over dale, we have hit the dusty trail And those caissons go rolling along. Edmund L. Gruber