Confrontation Quote by Jean-Claude Juncker

“Neither London nor Paris had gone to war in 1914 with the aim of creating a ‘Europe of nations’, and it was only from…

— Robert Gerwarth

“Europe, it is true, is a geographical and, within certain limits, an historical cultural conception. But the idea of Europe as an economic unit…

— Rosa Luxemburg

“Less than twenty years after the end of the Great War, the ‘war to end wars’ as it had come to be called at…

— John Keegan

Two World Wars are sufficient and we are the ones who supported this notion of a united Europe, so there would never be another…

— Daniel Fried

The history of the outbreak of war 100 years ago and of the collapse of the fragile balance of power in Europe in the…

— Frank-Walter Steinmeier

“It is incontrovertible that the First World War was a catastrophe for Europe. It remains hard to see, however, by what means its statesmen…

— Max Hastings

The first 'world' war was in reality the last European war fought by globally significant European powers.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The…

— Virginia Postrel

Too often, the idea seemed to be that the cost of being part of Europe was being less like Britain. So after years of…

— Douglas Alexander

Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

— Ernest Hemingway

By the start of August 1914, it was dawning on the British that a major war was about to break out on mainland Europe.…

— Margaret MacMillan

The First World War not only destroyed European civilisation and the empires at its heart; its aftermath led to a second conflagration, the Second…

— Paul Keating