Second world war Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“I got to thinking that the world would be a better place if they gave medals to great teachers rather than just soldiers who…

— Matthew Quick

“This was war: a vast machine that chewed up people.”

— Michael Pryor

“Mr. Winston and I had already discussed: How what I'd done was vile and on par with kicking disabled kittens. That I was on…

— Eileen Cook

“I came to see soldiers as men willing to lay down their lives for the sake of others. They fight for themselves and the…

— Marcus Brotherton

“In his combination of earnestness, social conscience, and willingness to scrap, he was a perfect hero for 1943, as America went about the rumbling,…

— Michael Chabon

“The Flyboy who got away became president of the United States. What might have been for Warren Earl, Dick, Marve, Glenn, Floyd, Jimmy, the…

— James Bradley

“President Harry Truman said, “In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves. Self-discipline with…

— John C. Maxwell

“It was then that I felt the full gravity of his profession. This was a real warrior, with real principles. Not a bang-bang Hollywood…

— lily burana

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death…

— William Manchester

“FDR’s struggle with illness and subsequent metal-filled life are remarkably similar to the story of another great leader who was part robot: Iron Man.…

— Daniel O'Brien

“He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individualism and the open…

— Barack Obama

“He showed the world what can be done against the odds, against a superpower. He showed -- and this is where Vietnam and Iraq…

— John Updike