War Ii Quotes

283 War Ii quotes by 249 unique authors

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was… — James Lovelock
I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way. — George McGovern
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. — Jon Meacham
Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in… — Jon Meacham
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry… — Walter Dean Myers
When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if… — Graham Nash
Americans who have parents raised during the Great Depression or World War II understand how drastically things have changed on the home front. My father… — Bill O'Reilly
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance… — Al Pacino
After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we… — Leon Panetta
I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II. — Dan Rather
The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in… — Feisal Abdul Rauf
In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much less true today.… — Christina Romer
Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was… — Jerry Saltz
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut. — Martin Scorsese
During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return. — Simon Sinek
The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War… — Steven Spielberg
The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West… — Helen Thomas
In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing… — Gene Tierney
We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II,… — George Wald
World War II was the last government program that really worked. — George Will
After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it would be better… — Frans de Waal
Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus… — Martin Filler
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the… — Helen Fisher
Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast? Example: What was the full… — Joan Bauer
In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie… — Umberto Eco

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