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258 World War I quotes by 222 unique authors

President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil… — Roy Wilkins
We are already engaged in World War III. It is a war against nature, and it is simply no contest. As a result, the threat… — Norman Myers
What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow,… — Dave Barry
My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World War II, but… — David Salle
I'm a Veteran. I was in the Navy, in the submarine corps. I come from a military family. Both of my grandparents were in World… — David Ayer
When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to… — Bonnie Bassler
Some European countries insist on saying that during World War II, Hitler burned millions of Jews and put them in concentration camps. Any historian, commentator… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything… — Kurt Vonnegut
World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how many other just… — Kurt Vonnegut
I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was… — Kurt Vonnegut
It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to… — Golda Meir
I'm interested in things when I don't know what they are. Like "Hey, Ray, what the hell is this?" Oh, that's lipstick from the 1700s,… — Tom Waits
History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer… — Frank Gaffney
I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be… — Craig Ferguson
I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was… — Tom Hiddleston
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
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 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
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
In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country. — Yoko Ono
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
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not. — Lester B. Pearson
During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing… — Chuck Palahniuk
For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White'… — Daniel Handler
In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words… — Robert Hughes

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