The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)” — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
I am proud of my children. They will make great warriors. And I will watch over them forever. I promise. — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
“Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Mute in that golden silence hung with green, Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyes Remembrance of all beauty… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick… — Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig Copy Share Image
“Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it… — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin,… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
A great war shall burst forth from fishes of steel. Machines of flying fire, lobsters, grasshoppers, mosquitoes. The mass attacks shall be… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is scarcely a town or school in Russia from which boys have not run away to the war. Hundreds of girls… — Stephen Graham Copy Share Image
“This will be the great war of our time,” Kashin said quietly. “When we are dead, when even our grandchildren’s grandchildren are… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“They had engaged in what could not be called treatment or even discussion, but open combat, the two of them a microcosm… — Kathy Hepinstall Copy Share Image
So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence… — Harold Lasswell Copy Share Image
Don't believe stories which you see in the papers about troops asking as a special privilege not to be relieved. We stick… — Harry Yoxall Copy Share Image
“But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
Out of the ashes of the Great War came the freewheeling cultural renaissance that was the Jazz Age, but the decade-long party… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
He was tall as a young tree, lithe, immensely strong, able swiftly to draw a great war-bow and shoot down a Nazgûl,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Judging from the way they sat and goggled at the drag on the stage it was obvious that they were indulging in… — Eric Hiscock Copy Share Image
“Ironically, the memory of the women heroes of World War I was largely eclipsed by the very women they had inspired. The… — Kathryn J. Atwood Copy Share Image
“You fought in the Great War?” a journalist from The Guardian asked me in a long interview to coincide with the presentation… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“They were having a good time, an adventure. That was January’s dominant impression of his companions in the 509th; despite all the… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
“It is a tale that is told, from which we may draw the knowledge and comprehension needed for the future. The disproportion… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
