World War Quotes

608 World War quotes by 496 unique authors

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart. — Jim Webb
No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if… — Karen DeCrow
I only take vitamin B complex. Before World War II, I used to take ionized yeast, because in the pre-war era we never heard about… — John Gokongwei
I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the… — Harold E. Varmus
The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against… — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge. There were interstate highways being… — Manuel Moroun
After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century. — Stella Blum
The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of… — Jim Bunning
I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war. — John Edward Christopher Hill
World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us. — Graham Chapman
Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened, surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective. — David K. E. Bruce
Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear… — Arthur Henderson
The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as… — Arthur Henderson
The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human… — Arthur Henderson
We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the… — Arthur Henderson
What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died… — Christopher Shays
The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War. — Douglas Hurd
I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe. — Frank Scott
However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally… — Walter Kohn
As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make… — Mike Rogers
We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War. — Ian Hart
In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed… — C L R James
There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one. — Joseph Rotblat
Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III. — Paul Robeson
We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who had truly understood… — Rene Cassin

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