Archduke Franz Ferdinand Quote by Ken Follett

“The initial shooting that led to the conflict was itself a farce. The assassin in question was a Yugoslav nationalist named Gavrilo Princip. He…

— J.M.R. Higgs

“In 1914, Franz Ferdinand, the Austrian imperial heir, was shot and killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo. Do you know the motive behind…

— Loren D. Estleman

“Well, that is all the notes and there is not much else in the paper of any importance. I never take much interest in…

— L.M. Montgomery

“In every country, those who were against war had been overruled. The Austrians had attacked Serbia when they might have held back; the Russians…

— Ken Follett

“SOME DAMNED FOOLISH THING in the Balkans,” Bismarck had predicted, would ignite the next war. The assassination of the Austrian heir apparent, Archduke Franz…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

I aimed at the Archduke. I do not remember what I thought at that moment.

— Gavrilo Princip

“In the great world outside Hungary events were taking place that would change all their lives: the uprising in Russia, the dispute over Crete,…

— Miklós Bánffy

World War III will be triggered off not by suppressed nationalists seeking political independence, as happened the first time around when the Serbs at…

— Philip Roth

The assassination at Sarajevo was certainly the crucial precedent of the European war that its conspirators had sought, but was not the historical cause…

— J. Bowyer Bell

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Found Alive! First World War a Mistake!

— Spike Milligan

“…in Bosnia, mass rape was a policy of the war, systematically carried out, implicating neighbors, paramilitaries, soldiers.”

— Ausma Zehanat Khan

“For 1,300 days of Sarajevo's drama, important people in the world who were supposed to act kept their eyes closed, ... But not you.…

— Alijia Izetbegovic