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As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war. — B.H. Liddell Hart

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

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future. — Pope John Paul II

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

Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is ... it made us an is. — Shelby Foote

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

Jesse and Frank James were the most well-known military-trained gang members — Carter F. Smith

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

I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal. — Ralph Webster

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

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

World War II was the last government program that really worked. — George Will

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

Nothing about these times makes any sense. Nothing. Putting it to words only makes it sound too simple. — Ralph Webster

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

We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington. — Robert E.Lee

The actual truth has never written about any war, and this will be no exception. — George Lynch

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

Old, is it?" the man asks.
"Yes, very."
"Pre-war, is it?"
"Yes," I say. "If by war you mean the Norman invasion. — Garrett Carr

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

We were not told how Alexander the Great was the last person in history to successfully 'pacify' what would become Afghanistan, over 2,000 years ago. — Jake Wood

Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman

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

History chalks up Mr. McKinley's War as a U.S. win, and he also polls favorably as a 'near great' president. — Douglas Brinkley

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

War makes rattling good history. — Thomas Hardy

We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad. — Erich Maria Remarque

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. — Abba Eban

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

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

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

The authors of all our misfortune. — Jefferson Davis

Shitting fucking bastard! Fuck off you massive cockwank!' - Misty Meanor, during a particularly stressful encounter. — Matthew Sylvester

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

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

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

Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come. — Bruce Catton

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

She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left. — Nancy B. Brewer

Everyone feels guilty before a mother who has lost her son in a war; throughout human history men have tried in vain to justify themselves. — Vasily Grossman

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

War does one good - it teaches people geography. — Will Durant

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

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

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

Whoever won the war, would revise the history. — Toba Beta

History is littered with the wars everybody knew could never happen. — Enoch Powell

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

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. — Barbara Tuchman

Those are the bad guys, right?"
"Depends on who wins, I guess. — Shannon A. Thompson

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

Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie. — Rick DeStefanis

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

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

Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war. — Shannon L. Alder

They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again. — Bob Massie

The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts. — Felix O. Hartmann

America is the world's top war-master; the most sophisticated killer-culture in history. — Bryant McGill

We just held each other for warmth. I cannot recall that we even spoke to one another. Such was our shock. That day we learnt a new word - war. — P.J. Whittlesea

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

France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war — Charles De Gaulle

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

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

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker. — Albert Einstein

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

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

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

Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium — Horace

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

Work, love, courage and hope,
Make me good and help me cope! — Anne Frank

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on. — Kevin J. Anderson

War without end.

Well, what was history without that?

And how would having the stars change anything? — James S.A. Corey

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

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

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor. — Robert A. Heinlein

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

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched. — Noam Chomsky

Knights do protect ladies, but only to keep them from being abducted by other knights. — Steven Pinker

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

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

Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves. — Bruce Catton

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

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

Sometimes, Freud argued, people need a history enema. — Tom Keneally

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