Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration. — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed? — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I. — Douglass North Copy Share Image
England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We must never again let America be led into a fratricidal war like the last two world wars, for the sake of… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain… — Eisaku Sato Copy Share Image
After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan,… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence… — David Frum Copy Share Image
My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Democratic governments are not delivering on their promises, which is partly due to the fact that governments are less powerful than they… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I don't think it's too late for 'The War of the Worlds' to come true. I'm talking about it from the standpoint… — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
In the period after the Second World War, there were still leaders in Europe who represented weak countries, but possessed a sense… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
I do think that this represents a kind of shift towards myth, a recovery of myth, largely through the popularity of writers… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We know that there were so many Japanese American soldiers in World War II who were fighting in Europe despite the fact… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
“In nearly every episode of fear mongering I discussed in the previous chapters as well, people with fancy titles appeared. Hardly ever… — Barry Glassner Copy Share Image
If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II. After all, where else in… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Hitler did not have Mussolini's revolutionary socialist background... Nevertheless, he shared the socialist hatred and contempt for the 'bourgeoisie' and 'capitalism' and… — Richard Pipes Copy Share Image
Woodrow Wilson was the president of the United States in 1920, and he was made a fool of - his wife almost… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Let no man surrender so long as he is unwounded and can fight. — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image