World War Quotes

608 World War quotes by 496 unique authors

I am encyclopaedic on World War II. My dad took me to D-Day beaches when I was a kid. I was there four years ago… — Eddie Izzard
I'm not a World War II buff. I know a little bit about it, I was taught the other side of the story in school,… — Bill Nighy
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks… — David McCullough
America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and… — Barack Obama
Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did not come from… — Will Eisner
If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of world government —… — Walter Cronkite
President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil… — Roy Wilkins
If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice. — Frank Knox
We are already engaged in World War III. It is a war against nature, and it is simply no contest. As a result, the threat… — Norman Myers
What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow,… — Dave Barry
My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World War II, but… — David Salle
I'm a Veteran. I was in the Navy, in the submarine corps. I come from a military family. Both of my grandparents were in World… — David Ayer
When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to… — Bonnie Bassler
The history of the genocide perpetrated during the Second World War does not belong to the past only. It is a ‘living history’ that concerns… — Irina Bokova
Some European countries insist on saying that during World War II, Hitler burned millions of Jews and put them in concentration camps. Any historian, commentator… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything… — Kurt Vonnegut
World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how many other just… — Kurt Vonnegut
I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was… — Kurt Vonnegut
To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a… — Tom Stoppard
It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to… — Golda Meir
I'm interested in things when I don't know what they are. Like "Hey, Ray, what the hell is this?" Oh, that's lipstick from the 1700s,… — Tom Waits
My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through… — Thomas Friedman
We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and… — Muammar al-Gaddafi
History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer… — Frank Gaffney
As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to… — Elizabeth Gilbert

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