World War Quotes

608 World War quotes by 496 unique authors

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political… — Al Gore
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II. — Barry Commoner
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole. — Barry Commoner
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War. — Benedict Cumberbatch
My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II. — Leonardo DiCaprio
I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that. — Phil Donahue
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. — Albert Einstein
I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I… — Oriana Fallaci
I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say… — Bob Feller
There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and… — Bob Feller
I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be… — Craig Ferguson
I'm actually reading 'World War Z' again! It's incredibly realistic and it's written as an oral history through interviews with different characters. Max Brooks wrote… — Nathan Fillion
I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost… — Larry Hagman
I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at… — Alexander Haig
Horror movies started to wane around the onset of World War II, and after World War II, when all the troops came home, people weren't… — Kirk Hammett
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was… — Herbie Hancock
I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff. — Tom Hanks
One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got to leave combat… — Tom Hanks
We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay. — Doc Hastings
Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this… — Thor Heyerdahl
I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child,… — Tom Hiddleston
I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was… — Tom Hiddleston
The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill… — Tom Hodgkinson
Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years… — Hugh Jackman

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496 authors contributed a total of 608 World War Quotes, led by these top contributors: