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The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending. — Emmanuel Jal

What if making peace with our warring hearts - peace within - is the first step to world peace? — Jared Brock

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II. — Dave Brubeck

No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli. — Saul David

The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war. — Michael Gove

Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War ... — J.G. Ballard

First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it. — Norman Schwarzkopf

We didn't call it the First World War when it was happening. — Anita Diamant

Two simple ways to win a war against the world:
First, find the faults within;
Second, there is no war. — Kunal Narayan Uniyal

I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane. — Muriel Rukeyser

My father was in the First World War. — Doris Lessing

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse. — Adam Hochschild

First of all, I want you to know that I believed in the cause for which I died. No war is won without sacrifice. — Elizabeth Berg

I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia. — Jeremy Irvine

You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War. — Jeremy Hardy

No major war or act of mass killing in the twentieth century began without the aggressors or perpetrators first claiming innocence and victimhood. — Timothy Snyder

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars. — Pat Barker

When I was young, a child never asked questions of his elders," Claire Deverill said.
"Was that before or after the First World War?" Matt asked. — Anthony Horowitz

The sad truth was that the United States had not been reduced to a smoking rubble by the first World War. — Tom Wolfe

The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War. — Douglas Hurd

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power. — Whittaker Chambers

I'm thinking about doing a First World War film. — Peter Jackson

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War. — Clint Eastwood

Today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself. — Margaret Mead

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books. — John Hersey

If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn't be any God-damned wars in the first place! — Sally Field

I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War. — Robyn Davidson

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth. — Paul Johnson

The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces. — Erich Maria Remarque

There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war' ... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word. — Ernst Haeckel

We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. — Emma Goldman

At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone. — Evelyn Waugh

No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops. — John J. Pershing

A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance. — Pat Barker

The adverse economic events following the First World War turned me toward economics. — Theodore Schultz

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering. — Nick Harkaway

Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the seeds were planted for a century of bloodshed. — Richard Engel

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy. — Noam Chomsky

If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself. — Winston Churchill

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General. — Neil Kinnock

I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone. — Ernst Zundel