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There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga. — Henry M. Cist

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

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

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

Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat. — Jefferson Davis

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars. — Anatole Broyard

If history only remembers one in a thousand of us, then that future will be filled with stories of who we were and what we did. — Electronic Arts

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

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

The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp. — Timothy Snyder

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

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history. — Martin Cruz Smith

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

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

The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask to
be imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified. — Paul Fussell

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

The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict. — Susan Jacoby

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

And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history. — James Hilton

Very few people in the USA realize that a nuclear war was waged with nature in the southwest by their own military. — Steven Magee

I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war. — Phil Klay

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

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

Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents. — T.H. White

It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness. — Abraham Lincoln

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes. — David Broder

Probably in all our history no foe has been so detested as were the Japanese. Emotions forgotten since our most savage Indian wars were reawakened. — Allen Nevins

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

Although most Americans believed in Manifest Destiny, few could agree on exactly which lands the United States was supposed to govern. — Charles W. Carey Jr.

What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta. — Thucydides

It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy. — Randall Wallace

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander. — Douglas MacArthur

A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war. — Henry Kissinger

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

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

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

In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now. — Thomas Gage

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

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

Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history. — Adolf Hitler

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y. painting. — Deborah Kass

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

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times. — Winston S. Churchill

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war. — James Monroe

No war has ever won in the history, because people died in every single war! Where there are deaths, there is no victory! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Reducing military presence has never in history won a war. — John McCain

Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has. — Bill Murray

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

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

The days are numbered for those bums over in England."
German Tank commander — Leo McKinstry

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit. — Michael Ondaatje

In the whole course of history, war had always fallen on the shoulders of the young. — Alexandra Bracken

Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War. — Nicholas Sparks

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war. — Phyllis Schlafly

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

True holy war in human history has ceased because Jesus has fought its last episode on the cross. — Karen H. Jobes

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

Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results. — William C. Oates

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

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

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

The real war will never get in the books. — Walt Whitman

[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living. — Sir Laurens Van Der Post

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it. — Michael Baumgartner

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

I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won. — Philip Sheridan

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

It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one. — Sybille Bedford

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

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

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

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

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

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history. — Carl Sagan

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

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. — Richard M. Nixon

We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again. — Al Murray

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

After the 'war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a 'Peace to end Peace. — Archibald Wavell