...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits. — Smedley Butler 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
This was in the sense that if Dada was reacting to the morality and aesthetics of pre-WWI, then we were very much… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
“... We had suddenly learned to see. And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at… — Erich Maria Remarque 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
“France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me… — William Arthur Sirmon Copy Share Image
“It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness.” — Jessie Douglas Kerruish Copy Share Image
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” Winston Churchill” — Tammy Hinton Copy Share Image
“In short, the war got off to a pretty good start, with the help of chaos.” — Gabriel Chevallier Copy Share Image
“The bargaining position of the victor always diminishes with time. Whatever is not exacted during the shock of defeat becomes increasingly difficult… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“He had volunteered early, rather than waiting to be conscripted, for he felt a duty and an obligation to serve, and believed… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective… — David Jones Copy Share Image
“At the sight of the Neckar slopes wreathed with flowering cherry trees, I had a strong sense of having come home. What… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“Those long uneven lines Standing as patiently As if they were stretched outside The Oval or Villa Park, The crowns of hats,… — Philip Larkin 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
“The landscape had been so maimed by this new kind of warfare it was as if human architects of great genius had… — Christopher Buehlman Copy Share Image
“There is much argument here about what is respectable and what is not, and what a good gel should or should not… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
...Senate Doc. # 259. The 65th congress(:)...The coal companies made between 100% and 7,856% on their capital stock during the war (to… — Smedley Butler 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
“Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).” — Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY Copy Share Image
Pershing won [WWI] without even looking into an airplane, let alone gong up in one. If they had been of such importance… — John W. Weeks Copy Share Image
“These moments of nocturnal prowling leave an indelible impression. Eyes and ears are tensed to the maximum, the rustling approach of strange… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“If war was once a chivalrous duel, it is now a dastardly slaughter.” — Artur von Bolfras Copy Share Image
“Victorious troops are those who kill more, and here we were the victims. This put the finishing touch to our demoralisation. The… — Gabriel Chevallier Copy Share Image
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