My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War. — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
What distinguished the First World War from all wars before it was the massive power of the antagonists. — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
I wish we could see understanding the First World War as a European issue, or even a global one, and not a… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“The sad truth was that the United States had not been reduced to a smoking rubble by the first World War.” — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Dad was in the First World War in the Royal Field Artillery from 1914 to 1918, as well as uncle Leonard. — Shakin' Stevens Copy Share Image
A lot of my father's family in Canada volunteered in the First World War because they saw it as a war that… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops.” — John J. Pershing Copy Share Image
The First World War was a war devoid of any virtue. It arose from the quagmire of European tribalism: a complex interplay… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
“MOST CHILDREN BROUGHT UP IN BROOKLYN BEFORE THE FIRST World War remember Thanksgiving Day there with a peculiar tenderness. It was the… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Until the late 1950s Britain's leaders were slow to appreciate the social and economic value of motorways. The first stretch of German… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
I think that the first World War put an end the kind of music that Mahler, Bruckner and Richard Strauss were writing.… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
“Ever since I served as an infantryman in the First World War I had a great dislike of people who themselves in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“And some go the other way, the most lethal way of all: when the pressure gets to be too much, it's not… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“In other words, it was unavoidable, and probably inevitable, so we might as well close our minds and accept that 16.5 million… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
Both of my grandfathers fought in the Second World War, and my great-grandfather died at the Somme in the First World War.… — Andrea Riseborough 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
“the Armenian genocide of the First World War years, which represented an escalation in intensity, rather than a departure from previous tolerance.… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“… the white stain of chalk mixed with the clay topsoil zigzagging across the freshly-turned earth, the tell-tale marks of the German… — Anthony Price Copy Share Image
I read "Women Heroes of World War I" and was absolutely astonished. When we imagine women serving in the First World War,… — Kate Quinn Copy Share Image
Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“And, as inflation has fallen, so bonds have rallied in what has been one of the great bond bull markets of modern… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“The totalitarian movements aim at and succeed in organizing masses—not classes, like the old interest parties of the Continental nation-states; citizens with… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“had been deeply struck… by the damage wreaked upon mathematics in France by the first world war, when “a misguided notion of… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I guess that isn't the right word," she said. She was used to apologizing for her use of language. She had been… — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr Copy Share Image
“Even before the First World War there was a strain in European art and music – in Germany more than anywhere –… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
“The nations of the earth through the centuries of time have waged war to gain territory. I think ours is the only… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“So this book is a sidewalk strewn with junk, trash which I throw over my shoulders as I travel in time back… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse. — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“When I was young, a child never asked questions of his elders," Claire Deverill said. "Was that before or after the First… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Economic, political and military intervention following the first world war is frequently blamed for current friction between east and west. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
“It is said that chlorinated drinking water brought to troops in the First World War saved more lives than were lost to… — Hugh Aldersey-Williams Copy Share Image
“It is incontrovertible that the First World War was a catastrophe for Europe. It remains hard to see, however, by what means… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
As well as remembering the service of the non-white soldiers and auxiliaries of the first world war, we have also to remember… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“On the face of it, no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked… — Lyn Macdonald Copy Share Image
“For the fighter pilots of the First World War, buttocks had been an important sensory tool. Pilots felt they lost something when,… — Patrick Bishop Copy Share Image
