World War Quotes
608 quotes by 496 authors
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Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.
— Noam Chomsky
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
— Ramsey Clark
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World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
— Stephen Ambrose
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Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our…
— Stephen Ambrose
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We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in…
— Ian Anderson
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Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills manufactured from pulverized…
— Carl Sagan
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I want a world without war. War never works it just kills. I want my children to never have to have a close contact with…
— Unknown Author
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Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their…
— Winston Churchill
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The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in…
— Theodore Hesburgh
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I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast…
— Ernst Zundel
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With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war with Japan, in…
— J. William Fulbright
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Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is, went from defensive…
— Jimmy Doolittle
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Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same…
— Andrew Greeley
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The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in warfare, the more…
— Bernard Law Montgomery
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England, unlike in 1914, will not allow herself to blunder into a war lasting for years.... Such is the fate of rich countries.. .Not even…
— Adolf Hitler
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Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water.…
— Carl Sagan
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War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which…
— Joseph de Maistre
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In one of the decisive battles of World War I, disastrous reports poured into the headquarters of Marshal Foch, the commander of the Allied forces.…
— James Keller
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I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended…
— Norman Schwarzkopf
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When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for having on hand…
— James A. Michener
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