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This country has a proud history of opening its doors to generations of people fleeing personal persecution, civil unrest and war. — Charles Kennedy

History will judge the war against Iraq not by the brilliance of its military execution, but by the effectiveness of the post-hostilities activities. — Rajiv Chandrasekaran

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs ... — H.G.Wells

Sixty years ago this week Hitler invaded Poland. This led to the creation of The History Channel. — Jay Leno

No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth. — Anton Walbrook

...the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of everything else but its memory. — James D Hornfischer

So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver's butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812. — Steve Vernon

War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war. — Robert Aumann

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man. — Henry Ford

The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time. — Auliq Ice

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events. — Honore De Balzac

Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war. — Michele Bachmann

In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success. — M.F. Moonzajer

War is the most painful act of subjection to the laws of God that can be required of the human will. — Leo Tolstoy

He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history. — Dave Malloy

The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history. — Bob Crow

Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German. — Anne Frank

Underestimation of nonconventional units or a guerrilla enemy by regular forces is a cardinal military sin. — Howard R. Simpson

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them. — Dan Simmons

Jesus won the war, and the rest of history is simply mopping up. — Carolyn Custis James

The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history. — Douglas MacArthur

In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war. — Will Durant

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums. — Arthur Koestler

We learned the value of research in World War II. — Amar Bose

World War One is an important part of Ireland's multi-layered history during which tens of thousands Irish people lost their lives. — Martin McGuinness

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. — Jon Meacham

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good. — Anne Michaels

The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late. — Douglas MacArthur

The least likely of military leaders, Joan of Arc changed the course of the Hundred Years' War and of history. — Kathryn Harrison

Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest. — Duke Of Wellington

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations. — Nguyen Cao Ky

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy. — Daniel Silva

History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war. — Shigeru Yoshida

Prosperous suburbia was one of the end-states of history. Once achieved, only plague, flood, or nuclear war could threaten its grip. — J.G. Ballard

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All history, of course, is the history of wars. — Penelope Lively

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground. — Winston S. Churchill

She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting. — Stuart Jaffe

In Britain, these Jewish refugees were greeted with a mixture of grudging acceptance by some and open hostility by others. — Thomas Harding

Godless, 'we had no war.'
Until God set us to fight each other, for the rest of human history. — Chuck Palahniuk

I would sum up the German character best by saying that they are the best of losers and the worst of winners. — Edmund Ironside

There's never been a war in the history of the world that wasn't started by the wealthy for the wealthy — Deborah Smith

The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life. — Bruce Catton

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story
the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit. — Hugh Howey

History doesn't move you more than when it's in the iron of your own blood. — J.R. Tompkins

It would be the most crucial day of the entire war. — David McCullough

The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history. — Sue Kelly

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war. — Charles Krauthammer

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss. — Wendell Berry

How a member of the church - one who had read the Good Lord's bible - could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me. — Jay Grewal

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. — Douglas MacArthur

Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

War is always a contest of words as well as of wounds. — Samuel Moyn

It is good that war is so terrible, or we should become too fond of it

Robert E. Lee — Greg Seeley

Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I. — Ivica Dacic

The authors of all our misfortune. — Jefferson Davis

The history of mankind is a history of war. — Mike Love

The art of Europe is drowned in the centuries in the war-scarred face of a motherland.. — John Geddes

I am a war man in the day of war, but I am a peace man in the day of peace. — Michael Collins

I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all. — Ulysses S. Grant

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history. — Mahatma Gandhi

The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States. — Bruce Catton

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. — Will Durant

Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history. — William Cowper

Oblivion has always been the most trustworthy guardian of classified files. — Lee Sandlin

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s. — Camille Paglia

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery. — Robert M. T. Hunter

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war. — James Buchanan

The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting. — Aslan Maskhadov

History is full of examples of slaughter and victory. — Bobby Adair

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war. — John Boyd Orr

...but the power of spilled blood overwhelmed the good intentions of those who wanted to end the violence. — Jeffrey Goldberg

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution, — James F. Cooper

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots. — Jared Diamond

History is a symptom of our disease — Mao Zedong

The author says that though the Mexican War wound down, the interpretation of it was just beginning. — Harold Holzer

The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace. — Edgar Quinet

The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history ... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

But whom could I resent?...the wheel of history turned by those war- and peacemakers whom I did not know? — Uyen Nicole Duong

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War. — Anson Mount

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world. — John Bartholomew Gough

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other. — Thomas Carlyle

This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left. — Livy

When you look at the history of wars, they ultimately revolve around one claim: "My god is better than yours." — Yair Lapid

History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union. — Henry L. Stimson

A radiant fellowship of the fallen. — Joshua Chamberlain

Military strategy...has become the diplomacy of violence. — Thomas C. Schelling

No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today. — A.J. Muste

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. — Stephen Ambrose

Jason smiled. The sound of wings was louder now, the fluttering of angels come to carry him home. — Robert Ferrigno

The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends on the observer and the verdict of history. — Pentti Linkola

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war. — Lane Evans

More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined. — David Frum

Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness. — Desmond Seward

When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power. — Livy

Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings — Barbara W. Tuchman

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war. — George Meredith

Nothing in recent history makes any sense without a deep understanding of WWII and The Holocaust. — A.E. Samaan

The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression? — Anne Frank