There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The cries of the wounded had much diminished now, and as we staggered down the road, the reason was only too apparent,… — Edwin Campion Vaughan Copy Share Image
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly,… — Henry Villard Copy Share Image
I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain… — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
And so he [the Jew] advances on his fatal road until another force comes forth to oppose him, and in a mighty… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I look upon the People and the Nation as handed on to me as an responsibility conferred upon me by God, and… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because… — Bertrand Russell 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
We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We must be… — Harold Nicolson 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
She told me that all the girls in Annezin prayed every night for the war to end and for the English to… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
If you do not leave this pasturage, Saladin will come and attack you here. And if you retreat from this attack the… — Gerard de Ridefort Copy Share Image
I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial… — Alice Corbin Henderson Copy Share Image
The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do occasionally wonder, if you were to bring to life one of those young men who sacrificed themselves in what was… — Russell Crowe 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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 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