Hearts of Iron IV Quotes

Hearts of Iron IV does have 90 loading screen quotes. I know the exact number because I have checked the in-game files. After reading them, I decided to share them with you. Because, why not? I am sure you will find these quotes very interesting.

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Some of these HOI4 quotes are very quirky and funny. Small elements like these quotes makes Paradox games really amazing. So, you can scroll down once you are ready to get into it.

All 90 Hearts of Iron IV quotes:

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. – Benito Mussolini

To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do. – Benito Mussolini

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture. – Bernard L. Montgomery

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly. – Bernard L. Montgomery

It’s good to trust others, but, not to do so is much better. – Benito Mussolini

From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace. – Benito Mussolini

Giraffes are heartless creatures.

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

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. – Joseph Stalin

History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been. – Joseph Stalin

The Pope! How many divisions has he got? – Joseph Stalin

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union. – Joseph Stalin

The only real power comes out of a long rifle. – Joseph Stalin

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless. – Adolf Hitler

Great liars are also great magicians. – Adolf Hitler

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution. – Adolf Hitler

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. – Adolf Hitler

Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all. – Adolf Hitler

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill

Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, panzer troops will play the decisive role. – Heinz Guderian

The new German Panther and Tiger can be used until they break down without trying to repair them. They have bad engines, transmission and suspension. – Department of Weaponry of the Red Army

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. – George S. Patton

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. – George S. Patton

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. – George S. Patton

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more. – George S. Patton

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory. – George S. Patton

The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down. – Chuck Yeager, USAAF

Theo, Heinrich here. Have just shot down two bombers. No more ammunition. I’m going to ram. Auf Wiedersehen, see you in Valhalla! – Heinrich Ehrler, Luftwaffe

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best. – Chester W. Nimitz

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies? – Chester W. Nimitz

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result. – Hideki Tojo

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine. – Erwin Rommel

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil. – Erwin Rommel

Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both. – Erwin Rommel

Poor Neville Chamberlain believed he could trust Hitler. He was wrong. But I don’t think I’m wrong about Stalin. – Winston Churchill (after Yalta)

I believe it is peace for our time. – Neville Chamberlain, 1938 after Munich agreement.

No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Göring. You may call me Meyer. – Hermann Meyer

We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down. – Adolf Hitler (on the Soviet Union)

I can run wild for the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and the United Kingdom. After that, I have no expectation of success. – Isoroku Yamamoto

If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as if it were not there. – Georgy Zhukov

The Russian colossus has been underestimated by us… whenever a dozen divisions are destroyed, the Russians replace them with another dozen. – Franz Halder

To the German Commander: NUTS! The American Commander. – Anthony C. McAuliffe (responding to German demand for surrender)

It is us today. It will be you tomorrow. – Haile Selassie I, 1936

Not one step back! – Soviet Order No. 227

Tora! Tora! Tora! – Mitsuo Fuchida, 7 December, 1941

Your name is unknown. Your deed is immortal. – Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Moscow)

Where is, repeat, where is Task Force Thirty-Four? The world wonders. – CINCPAC, Battle of Leyte Gulf

The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage. – Emperor Hirohito, 1945

We should have known better after the first war. – Gerd von Rundstedt

The vastness of Russia devours us. – Gerd von Rundstedt

I ask you, do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even yet imagine? – Joseph Goebbels

One blow from the German army and another from the Soviet army put an end to this ugly product of Versailles. – Vyacheslav Molotov (after the fall of Poland)

Scratch one flattop! Dixon to carrier: scratch one flattop! – Robert E. Dixon, Battle of the Coral Sea

Isn’t it dreadful? Here we are, two officers of the German General Staff, discussing how best to murder our commander in chief. – Henning von Tresckow

Hitler is a dancing dervish. He must be shot down. – Henning von Tresckow

The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. – Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris

If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. – Winston Churchill, 21 June, 1941

So the bastard’s dead? Too bad we didn’t capture him alive! – Joseph Stalin (on hearing of Hitler’s suicide)

We have been defeated. We are beaten, we have lost the battle. – Paul Reynaud, 15 May, 1940

I only need a few thousand dead so that I can sit at the peace conference as a man who has fought. – Benito Mussolini

The French had lied to the Poles in saying they are going to attack. There is no idea of it. – Edmund Ironside

Why Die for Danzig? – French Anti-War Slogan, 1939

There is something phoney about this war. – US Senator William Borah, 1939

Switzerland possesses the most disgusting and miserable people and political system. The Swiss are the mortal enemies of the new Germany. – Adolf Hitler

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

You will all wind up shining the shoes of the Germans! – Italo Balbo

Sink, burn, capture, destroy. Let nothing pass. – Andrew Cunningham, Battle of Tunisia

I think we may be going a bridge too far. – Frederick Browning (prior to Operation Market Garden)

Thank God for the French Army. – Winston Churchill, 1933

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

A man has to be alert all the time if he expects to keep on breathing. If not, some German son-of-a-bitch will sneak up behind him and beat him to death with a sock full of shit. – George S. Patton

Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid – will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country. – Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

Through the mud and the blood to the green fields beyond. – Royal Canadian Armoured Corps motto

There is general curiosity in the British Fleet to find out whether the Italians are up to the level they were at in the last war or whether they have fallen off at all. – Winston Churchill (on the Italian declaration of war)

And we’ll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that’s bloody well all we’ve got! – Winston Churchill (immediately after promising to fight in the fields and in the streets)

Experience has shown that attacks against tanks with close combat weapons by a sufficiently determined man will basically always succeed – German Army Group Center anti-tank manual

Give me fifty DC-3s and the Japanese can have the Burma Road. – Chiang Kai-Shek

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. – Mao Zedong

Keep men, lose land: land can be taken again. Keep land, lose men: land and men are both lost. – Mao Zedong

I would rather die in a swamp of Greater Romania than in a paradise of a small Romania. – Ion Antonescu

People don’t matter, only what they represent. – Ion Antonescu

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. – Winston Churchill

Vanquished today by mechanical force, in the future we will be able to overcome by a superior mechanical force. The fate of the world depends on it. – Charles de Gaulle