World War Quotes

608 World War quotes by 496 unique authors

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
World War II proves there's no God. — Penn Jillette
Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know?… — James Earl Jones
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. — John F. Kennedy
Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991,… — Charles Krauthammer
I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always… — Diane Kruger
Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and… — Madeleine M. Kunin
In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers… — Christian Lous Lange
When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension… — Ang Lee
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. — Doris Lessing
My father was in the First World War. — Doris Lessing
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed… — Maya Lin
Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was… — James Lovelock
When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war… — George McGovern
I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way. — George McGovern
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. — Jon Meacham
Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a… — Jon Meacham
Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in… — Jon Meacham
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry… — Walter Dean Myers
When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if… — Graham Nash
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for… — Peggy Noonan
Americans who have parents raised during the Great Depression or World War II understand how drastically things have changed on the home front. My father… — Bill O'Reilly
In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country. — Yoko Ono
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance… — Al Pacino
After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we… — Leon Panetta

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