First world war Quote by Guy Martin

I was a happy child, just 9 years old, and I knew nothing about war.

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen

— Oliver North

What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the…

— George Grosz

Most people learn all about the Second World War in school, or else, they see so many films put out by Hollywood, that it's…

— Jeff Shaara

I never believed in the danger of a third world war.

— Indira Gandhi

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

— Chief Joseph

Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that…

— Kamal Haasan

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to…

— David Bailey

War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire…

— Kurt Vonnegut

And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the…

— Patrick Macnee

I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the…

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who…

— Winston Churchill