Best World War Ii Wisdom
301 World War Ii quotes by 264 unique authors
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My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.
— Phil Donahue
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I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I…
— Oriana Fallaci
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I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say…
— Bob Feller
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There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and…
— Bob Feller
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Horror movies started to wane around the onset of World War II, and after World War II, when all the troops came home, people weren't…
— Kirk Hammett
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In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was…
— Herbie Hancock
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I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.
— Tom Hanks
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One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got to leave combat…
— Tom Hanks
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We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.
— Doc Hastings
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Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this…
— Thor Heyerdahl
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Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years…
— Hugh Jackman
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World War II proves there's no God.
— Penn Jillette
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Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know?…
— James Earl Jones
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I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always…
— Diane Kruger
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Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and…
— Madeleine M. Kunin
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When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension…
— Ang Lee
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Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was…
— James Lovelock
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I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
— George McGovern
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World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
— Jon Meacham
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Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in…
— Jon Meacham
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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
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When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if…
— Graham Nash
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Americans who have parents raised during the Great Depression or World War II understand how drastically things have changed on the home front. My father…
— Bill O'Reilly
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