There is scarcely a town or school in Russia from which boys have not run away to the war. Hundreds of girls… — Stephen Graham 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
The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)” — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
It was Harry Patch, who was the last living World War I veteran; and by veteran I mean someone who actually fought… — Jacqueline Winspear 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
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
“Mute in that golden silence hung with green, Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyes Remembrance of all beauty… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully… — Jacqueline Winspear 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
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
Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to… — Ernest Hemingway 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
Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As a result of continuous work with these highly toxic substances, our minds were so numbed that we no longer had any… — Otto Hahn 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 are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be… — H. H. Asquith Copy Share Image
Yara: Youre a great warrior. I saw the bodies above your gates. Which one gave you the tougher fight, the cripple or… — Yara Copy Share Image
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image