World war Quotes · Page 7

I loved World War II. I didn't want the war to end. I wanted the war to go on forever.

— Russ Meyer

The Workers' Party will not be like the Japanese in World War II.

— Pritam Singh

We Jews had more power than you Americans had during the War [World War I].

— Leon V. DePoncins

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

— Lloyd Alexander

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

— Ridley Scott

Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend.

— George Carlin

My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.

— Anonymous

"World War III, was the Cold War, and the U.S. won it".

— Norman Podhoretz

Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a…

— Barbara Amiel

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

— Barry Commoner

We are the people who won the Second World War and saved the world. We went to the moon. We gave the…

— Brian Williams

After World War II, communities and the trust they fostered began to erode in the United States. We moved away from dense…

— Joe Gebbia

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to…

— George McGovern

This unprecedented crisis, which is without doubt the worst since the second world war, is not over.

— Giorgio Napolitano

I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world…

— Anonymous

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had…

— Gore Vidal

In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much…

— Christina Romer

As a Polish American, I grew up hearing the phrase 'nothing about us without us.' To Eastern Europeans, the vow is a…

— Tom Malinowski

The British Union of Fascists, Oswald Mosley's group, the black shirts, they were banned in Britain in 1940. And Max Mosley's dad,…

— Rachel Maddow

“In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful…

— Bill Bryson

I think 'G.I. Joe' is a perfect example of how I'm the world's worst businessman. If I were smart, I'd be writing…

— Max Brooks

The other thing that really I regretted not being able to do was to push effectively for the reform of the Security…

— Kofi Annan

Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged…

— Cate Blanchett

“could be an antidote to clinical depression. Smith fed off risk and nerves for the rest of his life, noticeable early with…

— Sam Stephenson

But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned…

— Nicholas Metropolis

“During his extensive career as an airmail pilot with Aéropostale, Antoine served as the company’s station manager in barren Villa Bens. During…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two

I think our support for the EEC has been very half-hearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and spend all…

— Margaret Thatcher

“had been deeply struck… by the damage wreaked upon mathematics in France by the first world war, when “a misguided notion of…

— Edward Frenkel

“A historian once speculated on what would happen if a time-traveller from 1945 arrived back in Europe just before the First World…

— Richard J. Evans

“It wasn't until the 1920s that a bare majority of children grew up in families where the father's labor purchased the family's…

— Stephanie Coontz

As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction,…

— Ayn Rand

“Very few people know where they will die, But I do; in a brick-faced hospital, Divided, not unlike Caesarean Gaul, Into three…

— L.E. Sissman

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

— Neil Simon

The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It's worthless.

— Hugo Chavez

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.

— Madeleine Albright

10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?

— Alan Coren

“More Americans died in WWII than in any other world war, with the possible exception of WWI.”

— Jarod Kintz

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Found Alive! First World War a Mistake!

— Spike Milligan

I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.

— Don Rickles

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.

— Dave Brubeck