Best World War I Thoughts
258 World War I quotes by 222 unique authors
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"World War III, was the Cold War".
— R. James Woolsey, Jr.
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The Japanese couldn't have been all bad during World War II. Look at all the movies Hollywood was able to make on account of them.…
— Pat Morita
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Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.
— Kurt Masur
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Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of…
— Eileen Collins
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There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and…
— Camille Paglia
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It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness…
— Learned Hand
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When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why -…
— Alistair Cooke
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Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh…
— William J. Clinton
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No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance…
— Art Buchwald
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The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood…
— Simone Weil
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No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of…
— Paul Tsongas
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World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations and…
— Joseph Stalin
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The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing…
— Condoleezza Rice
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All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing…
— Eisaku Sato
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It was the same in World War I, when Woodrow Wilson, also a tool of the Jews, maneuvered it into the war.
— Julius Streicher
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In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed.
— Frederick Lenz
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People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people think. Many believe…
— Leonard Slatkin
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More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost…
— Carol Vorderman
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I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting…
— Sanford I. Weill
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You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict
— Juan Williams
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During World War II, the Nazis put their victims into gas chambers and then incinerated them in ovens. While the Nazis took their victims to…
— David Krieger
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I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the old…
— Lisel Mueller
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Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime.
— Susan Faludi
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I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the Star Wars program…
— Michio Kaku
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[Running for President is] physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III
— Walter F. Mondale
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