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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
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
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
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
Underestimation of nonconventional units or a guerrilla enemy by regular forces is a cardinal military sin.
— Howard R. Simpson
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
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
— Arthur Koestler
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
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
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
It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.
— David McCullough
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
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
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 suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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
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
...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
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
Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness.
— Desmond Seward
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