So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war! — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe. — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged. — Alfred von Tirpitz Copy Share Image
There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions. — Arthur Desmond Copy Share Image
We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation. — Ahad Ha'am Copy Share Image
If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war. — Joseph Joffre Copy Share Image
War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly. — Wilfred Owen 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
“One last unexploded mine remains, its exact location unknown and its hidden potency serving as something of a symbol of the Great… — Joseph E. Persico 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
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
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its… — Lester B. Pearson 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
“... your father and I were in the trenches together, in the Great War. That was a war all right. Oh I… — Donald Barthelme 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
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
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
“Sometimes time can play tricks. One moment it idles by, an hour can seem a lifetime, such as when sitting by the… — M.A. Lossl Copy Share Image
“On the last day of January 1915, under the sign of the Water Bearer, in a year of a great war, and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. For some… — Ulysses S. Grant 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
In the Great War, there is no room for the faint-hearted, the cowardly. A criminal or an anarchist will be better conditioned… — Miguel Serrano Copy Share Image
What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The last deaths of the Great War on the western front occurred at midnight on the twelfth in Hamont, a Belgian town… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
