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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 he descended from heaven today the great warrior who beat the money-traders you would shout your "crucifige!" and nail him to… — Baldur von Schirach 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
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
As we take stock on the morrow of victory, we shall find that nothing of real value to the human race has… — Horatio Bottomley 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
“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
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
The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too… — Laurence Housman 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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