War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact we have to take special precautions during a battle to post police, to prevent more unwounded men… — Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig Copy Share Image
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
“One last unexploded mine remains, its exact location unknown and its hidden potency serving as something of a symbol of the Great… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
Germany has solemnly recognized and guaranteed France her frontiers as determined after the Saar plebiscite... We thereby finally renounced all claims to… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,'… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Woodrow Wilson is reported to have told a Princeton colleague, shortly after the 1912 election, "It would be an irony of fate… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
“THIS IS THE STORY of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed, through the bathrooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment.… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Some men of the line regiment who had appeared on our right started running back. I shouted out to them to halt,… — William St Leger Copy Share Image
The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of… — Edmond Taylor Copy Share Image
The example afforded before the Great War by Germany - which, if only it had exercised forbearance for another five or ten… — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The US has unthinkingly embarked upon a neoimperial policy that must involve us in virtually every great war of the coming century-and… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
I have prophesied for years that I was born for a Great War; that if I did not witness the coming of… — Augustus Sol Invictus Copy Share Image
It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end,… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“During the conflict that was placed before them, they not only gained the gratitude of many in their own generation but they… — Kathryn J. Atwood Copy Share Image
“It was that time of the century when the idea of a gentleman had almost become myth. The Great War had concussed… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“It is one of the many graveyards which are the Great War's chief heritage. The chronicle of its battles provides the dreariest… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
And now look at the great war still devastating Europe: think of the colossal brutality, cruelty, and mendacity which is now allowed… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I will no longer allow my obligation as a veteran to remember those who died in the great wars to be co-opted… — Harry Leslie Smith Copy Share Image
What you people who weren't yet born can never know is what it meant to sleep in cities under silent falls of… — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the… — Sean Lemass Copy Share Image
“...all the men in the photograph wear puttees. All the men in the picture are bound, trying to keep themselves together. That… — Elena Mauli Shapiro Copy Share Image
It has been estimated that of the world Jew population of approximately fifteen millions, no fewer than five million are in the… — Sidney Robertson Cowell Copy Share Image
The Holocaust is a great warning to us all. We shall never forget our sisters and brothers. We have to ensure it… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The marvel is that we did not all die of cold. As a matter of fact, only one of my party actually… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“... your father and I were in the trenches together, in the Great War. That was a war all right. Oh I… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“A halt was called, and the men threw themselves prostrate on the road without loosening their packs. At that moment, the outfit… — Clair Kenamore Copy Share Image
I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions.… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
