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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment. — Ralph Adams Cram
If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war. — Joseph Joffre
I will no longer allow my obligation as a veteran to remember those who died in the great wars to be co-opted by current or… — Harry Leslie Smith
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
The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern… — Winston Churchill
The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the… — Ulysses S. Grant
We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter,… — Tony Curtis
The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again. — Anne Sullivan Macy
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. — Chuck Palahniuk
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is… — Theodore Roosevelt
Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with… — Dorothy L. Sayers
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We… — Chuck Palahniuk
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none… — Theodore Roosevelt
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars… — Chuck Palahniuk
I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought… — Ursula K. Le Guin
He was tall as a young tree, lithe, immensely strong, able swiftly to draw a great war-bow and shoot down a Nazgûl, endowed with the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe. — Maud Hart Lovelace
I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders -… — Henry Williamson
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made… — Lester B. Pearson
The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be… — Laurence Housman
General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout… — Henry Villard
In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or… — Paul von Hindenburg
A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves — German Proverb
And now look at the great war still devastating Europe: think of the colossal brutality, cruelty, and mendacity which is now allowed to spread itself… — Sigmund Freud
Every great war beginning on is a very tiny reasons_ — Mak_786

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