A German attack on Russia’s ally France would, in reality…

After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in 1933, this…

— Kurt Vonnegut

...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then…

— Winston Churchill

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

— Winston Churchill

“My biggest hope for this work is that it will help others to remember the sacrifices made for our freedom, and even more so…

— J. Neven-Pugh

This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit…

— Winston Churchill

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.

— John McCrae

Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses, and one…

— Kevin Myers

If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with no winners,…

— Lance Armstrong

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of…

— Christopher Morley

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

— Winston Churchill

The most important thing I would learn in school was that almost everything I would learn in school would be utterly useless. When I…

— Joseph O'Connor

We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the…

— Winston Churchill

In Flanders fields the poppies blow,

— John McCrae

“Nowadays, we are all very familiar with the newsreels of the period showing the brave troops frantically waving their hankies from trains and smiling…

— Arthur Mathews

I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.

— Winston Churchill