World War Quotes

608 World War quotes by 496 unique authors

The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians. — Traian Basescu
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World… — Elliott Carter
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general. — George Crumb
Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full… — John Cornyn
Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that… — Warren Christopher
War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is… — Dinesh D'Souza
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era. — Ken Follett
Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II. — Adolf Galland
After World War II, the major estates really did collapse. — Hugh Bonneville
It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III. — Al Yankovic
Trying to create a next world war, he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor, he said I never engaged in this kind… — Bob Dylan
I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot. — Douglas J. Feith
My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll. — Georgie Fame
Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation… — Christopher Heyerdahl
My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea. — Darrell Issa
I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia. — Jeremy Irvine
I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been. — Sebastian Junger
After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used. — Naoto Kan
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone. — Richard Holbrooke
When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and… — Jean-Marie Le Pen
Some societies are also more optimistic than others: the U.S. and Australia are my two picks Tell a European you think there’s a housing bubble… — Jeremy Grantham
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars, — Pat Barker
My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in… — Julie Salamon
I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945 that knocked me… — Mitchell Zuckoff
If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified by the President… — Charles A. Beard

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