The Great War Quotes
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That bitch of a war killed the lady I really loved the Great Society. — Lyndon B. Johnson
The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.
— Bob Graham
It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Permission to buy apricots and oranges from my own trees, the ones my great grandfather planted and i kept alive in drought and war
— Michelle Cohen Corasanti
On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia ...
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.
— Alan Gorrie
No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action ... fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.
— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.
— James Meade
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.
— Michael Hastings
Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?
— Kurt Vonnegut
The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
— Ralph Adams Cram
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
— Jon Meacham
The Grand Illusion, one of the great war films of all time.
— Studs Terkel
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
— James A. Garfield
One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).
— Otto Von Bismarck
Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, So you're the little woman that started this great war!
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war.
— William Graham Sumner
Regrettable was the gallantry of great men who risked themselves for others.
— Michelle Franklin
I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.
— Gavin De Becker
the Kauravas and the Pandavas turned from demi-gods into cave men, the great war reduced to a tribal feud fought with sticks and stones.
— William Dalrymple
There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.
— Arthur Desmond
Great men are allowed to spill the blood of others.
— Naoyuki Ochiai
Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.
— Joshua Ferris
Although war can bring with it great enthusiasm and solidarity, it also brings the reaction to these things.
— Christopher Hitchens
Although traditional weapons killed far more people in the Great War, poison gas gave a new nightmare edge to the fighting.
— Deborah Blum
The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.
— Henry Ward Beecher
In fact, much of this book, and perhaps that is its main surprise, examines the great lengths to which the Ottomans went to stay out of the war.
— Mustafa Aksakal
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
— John Adams
Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.
— Adolf Hitler
There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.
— William Blake
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
— Jupiter Hammon
No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
— Wendell Willkie
Small pleasures must correct great tragedies, therefore of gardens in the midst of war I bold tell.
— Vita Sackville-West
One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Buchanan's constant crowing about his great victory only added to the perception that he was a clown; a blithering buffoon.
— C.L. Gammon
Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected.
— Martin Van Creveld
My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.
— Patrick Henry
Soldiers who return from foreign battlefields with a syndrome that survivors of the Great War called the thousand-yard stare.
— James Lee Burke
The war on privilege will never end. Its next great campaign will be against the privileges of the underprivileged.
— H.L. Mencken
The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
No price is too great to preserve the health of the fleet.
— John B. Jervis
Roman might have survived the Great Vampire War of 1710, but he was about to face an even worse terror.A mortal female in full rage. — Kerrelyn Sparks
We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.
— Ahad Ha'am
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
Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
Perhaps when the next Great War comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him.
— George Orwell
I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.
— Sebastian Faulks
I was enjoying the great human trophy hunt and, looking back, it scares the hell out of me
— Clint Van Winkle
My species has a great many good reasons for making war, though none of them is as good as the reason for not making war.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Sleep democratizes fear. The terror of a lost shoe or a missed train are as great here as those of guerrilla attack or nuclear war.
— Julian Barnes
Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
— John Le Carre
Smiles from girls like you are what started the Trojan War.
— Amanda Lance
I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west.
— Rodney Dangerfield
The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.
— Murray Rothbard
Our whole American way of life is a great war of ideas, and librariansare the arms dealers selling weapons to both sides — James Quinn
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
— Woodrow Wilson
Already the hour had struck, and at his great Master's bidding he must march with war into the West.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. — G.K. Chesterton
That's what war was. A great motion and then a great stillness in which the winner crouches and the loser lies facing the sky.
— Kathy Hepinstall
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood
— Otto Von Bismarck
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.
— Winston Churchill
So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
— Abraham Lincoln
The search for knowledge and the discovery of a great weapon are virtually one and the same. War is the father of everything.
— Paul Hoffman
All my grandparents and great aunts and uncle love 'Foyle's War.' They all lived through the war and love to see it reconstructed so authentically.
— Honeysuckle Weeks
The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
— Douglas MacArthur
Much blood has been spilled over words, and a great deal of it over the word 'God.' (125)
— Jean-Yves Leloup
Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Put an end to so great an evil and arrive at a peace settlement whatever the outcome, and whatever the conditions.
— William Of Tyre
Lives of great men all remind usWe can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time. — Dick Winters
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
— Harold Pinter
For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.
— Harlan Ellison
Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?
— Mahatma Gandhi
The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.
— Octave Mirbeau
No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Warned by the disaster of the last great war, the statesmen of all nations have been taking measures to prevent the return of another such calamity.
— Frank B. Kellogg
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