World War Quotes

608 World War quotes by 496 unique authors

The second world war claimed tens of millions of victims — Jean-Marie Le Pen
Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful. — Amity Shlaes
Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed. — Patrick Macnee
I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still.' I play a World War II veteran, I acted with my… — James Cromwell
The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's… — Linda Chavez
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and… — Aleksander Kwasniewski
I think our support for the EEC has been very half-hearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and spend all your time criticizing… — Margaret Thatcher
For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in… — Ernst Zundel
I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest… — Hugh Shelton
One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World War III (may… — Philip J. Davis
The two sides that fought in World War I lived in the same century but in different places. The same is true for World War… — Haim Harari
It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they were during the… — Noam Chomsky
World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would… — Neil Sheehan
The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm. — John J. Pershing
There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. I think documentaries… — Steven Spielberg
It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army. — Lloyd Alexander
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about… — Stephen Ambrose
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory… — Donald Barthelme
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic… — Angela Carter
The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies;… — Ishmael Reed
The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war… — Adolf Galland
When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches for the front.… — Sergei Prokofiev
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain… — Mark Steyn
I think this conflict [against terrorism] is going to require a suspension of freedom and rights unlike anything we have ever seen, at least since… — Marlin Fitzwater

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