The First World War Quotes
Collection of top 37 famous quotes about The First World War
The First World War Quotes & Sayings
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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
The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war.
— Michael Gove
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
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
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
The sad truth was that the United States had not been reduced to a smoking rubble by the first World War.
— Tom Wolfe
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.
— Whittaker Chambers
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
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
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
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
If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.
— Winston Churchill
