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A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will… — Albert Einstein
What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production… — Barry Commoner
I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible. — Jessica Brown Findlay
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience… — Virginia Postrel
The three values which men held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism - as a cultural power - died… — Ayn Rand
Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy’s vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War… — Tom Brokaw
Every honor is appropriate for the courageous Americans who made the supreme sacrifice for our Nation at Pearl Harbor and in the many battles that… — Ronald Reagan
The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits. — Clint Eastwood
You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study...… — Steven Pressfield
Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful. — Amity Shlaes
I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still.' I play a World War II veteran, I acted with my… — James Cromwell
The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's… — Linda Chavez
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest… — Hugh Shelton
One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World War III (may… — Philip J. Davis
The two sides that fought in World War I lived in the same century but in different places. The same is true for World War… — Haim Harari
World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would… — Neil Sheehan
There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. I think documentaries… — Steven Spielberg
It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army. — Lloyd Alexander
The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies;… — Ishmael Reed
The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war… — Adolf Galland
I think this conflict [against terrorism] is going to require a suspension of freedom and rights unlike anything we have ever seen, at least since… — Marlin Fitzwater
Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution. — Mao Zedong
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse. — Adam Hochschild
"World War III, was the Cold War, and the U.S. won it". — Norman Podhoretz

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