Top 40 Eoin Dempsey Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “There could be no freedom, no justice without sacrifice. Hadn’t all the great revolutions in history been born from people like him, wronged and thirsty for freedom and peace?”

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2. “This isn’t going to be easy, but nothing worthwhile ever is. What we have is special. It always was,” he continued.”

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3. “We all deal with things in different ways.”

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4. “The only way to get over the last fall is to jump back on the horse and keep riding.”

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5. “Because I needed to be valuable again. I needed to do something useful, something good.”

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6. “German women were forbidden to wear makeup or to color or perm their hair.”

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7. “It’s time to move on. Everyone has a past. That’s what we are, but it’s our future that counts more, what we aspire to be. That’s all we can control.”

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8. “Hatred, malice, vindictiveness, and spite – the emotions that formed the bedrock of Nazism.”

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9. “Who’s going to help me? I can’t do this alone.”

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10. “The Nazis are nothing if not meticulous, and while they may be uneducated and backward, they have an innate talent for propaganda and suppression. The system they have set up is perfect in its dysfunctional functionality.”

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11. “The true patriots were the ones with a healthy suspicion of the government and every motive it acted upon.”

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12. “They’re steering us toward war. It’s as inevitable as the sun coming in the morning, or the dark at night. It’s going to take a lot to oust them, but they will lose in the end. And when they do, our victory will be our survival. As long as we remain true to ourselves and don’t let them scar our souls, then we will have won.”

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13. “The Aryans were a made-up race of blond supermen, which the Nazis had convinced the German people they belonged to.”

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14. “It was a warm September day and Christopher felt a bead of sweat run down his back. His new uniform was painfully tight around his shoulders. Somewhere there was a band playing. He could hear the strains of Pachelbel’s Canon in D, faint on the wind.”

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15. “What is an Aryan?” he would ask the group. “Blond like Hitler!” – who had dark hair. “Tall like Goebbels!” someone else would say – Goebbels was five feet five. “A perfect athletic specimen like Goering!” – who was a disgusting, fat slug.”

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16. “Where they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.”

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17. “Some things are different, but essentially we’re the same people all our lives aren’t we? I mean, our circumstances might change, our priorities sure as hell do but are we really that different?”

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18. “I see that Herr Hitler has banned all other political parties apart from his own Nazi Party.”

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19. “My name is John Lynch,” he said. “I’m from Philadelphia.”

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20. “A man with no loyalties other than his work was a dangerous one.”

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21. “It required supernatural strength not to do the Gestapo’s bidding.”

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22. “As long as we remain true to ourselves and don’t let them scar our souls, then we will have won.”

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23. “I’m glad you’re able to appreciate what we take for granted.” “I appreciate life now, how fragile and wonderful it is. I intend to live mine well.”

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24. “It’s never too late, not while you’ve got breath in your lungs and life within you.”

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25. “Some of the doctors – the ones with Nazi badges on their lapels –.”

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26. “Those last few months of her mother’s life were agonizing in their beauty, miserable in their wonder. Her mother slipped away with effortless grace.”

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27. “He had been too good, too pure for the sewer of prejudice and hatred this country had become. This country wasn’t for angels anymore. Only those twisted by hatred and fear could prosper here now.”

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28. “Culture” became a dirty word.”

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29. “The only thing to counter pain is healing, and the only way to heal is to let go of the hatred and to forgive.”

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30. “Shielding a child was impossible. Guidance was all that she could provide.”

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31. “This new man, this Hitler, was regarded as an upstart, a bad joke.”

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32. “He felt history in his hands, the feeling of belonging, being part of something, and the undeniable grace of fighting for a cause that he now truly believed in. He felt connected to these strangers around him. They were his brothers now.”

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33. “He tried not to think too much; thoughts would only lead to worry and worry was a waste of emotion.”

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34. “Pictures and memories were all he’d ever be now.”

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35. “The German citizenry ceded absolute power to Hitler and his Nazis without so much as a whimper.”

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36. “Several girls she knew had already reported their parents.”

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37. “And when you do, you must live the most wondrous life, beyond any of our simple imaginations. Don’t let their hatred live. Leave it behind, and you will have won.”

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38. “Life, her mother had once told her, was about decisions, decisions made in moments of great turmoil, and it was these decisions that defined us.”

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39. “There was little time. Wasting time on questions would cost Werner Graf his life. She thought of his wife and daughters, innocent of the crimes he might have committed on behalf of the Reich. She wasn’t carrying much herself – just the loaded revolver. It was all she thought she’d need tonight.”

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40. “But what if it did happen? What if your loyalties were torn between government and people? Would you go against the will of your government for the good of the people they’re meant to serve?”

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41. “She thought of the Allied airmen dropping the bombs, wondered if they knew what they were doing, who their bombs were killing. Were they war criminals, as most of the people in the air-raid shelter would testify? Or were things like accountability for war crimes decided by the victors?”

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42. “Hitler had found his first supporters – disenfranchised soldiers, rejects, and castoffs of a society.”

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