Best World War I Quotes
258 World War I quotes by 222 unique authors
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It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars; to…
— Unknown Author
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The threat of a world war is no more.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist governments and undermine…
— Michael Parenti
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There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because…
— Tom Hanks
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I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II,
— Audrey Hepburn
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Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than…
— Bryant Gumbel
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You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made…
— James Cagney
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Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity…
— George Kennedy
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The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Long before there was discrimination against blacks, there was discrimination against white southerners. When large numbers of these country people moved north during World War…
— Ann Coulter
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I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world…
— Celine Buckens
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My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever…
— William Westmoreland
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Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant 1993 dollars. The War on…
— Rush Limbaugh
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The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away…
— Studs Terkel
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Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's struggle,…
— Carrie Chapman Catt
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The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like…
— Studs Terkel
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We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically before World War…
— Rand Paul
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I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.
— Diane Kruger
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Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You…
— Linda Grant
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There will be no veterans of World War III.
— Walter F. Mondale
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They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World…
— Howard K. Smith
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The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be…
— Howard Fineman
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