World War I Quotes
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If I had been born in Paris in the early 1900s and lived through World War II, I feel like my DNA would've been Henri Baurel.
— Max Von Essen
I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
— Douglas Feith
I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms.
— Adolf Hitler
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
— Lester B. Pearson
We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
— Vanna Bonta
We experienced similar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.
— Daniel Yergin
I loved playing computer games. I used to be one of the top World of War-crafters in the world for a couple of years.
— Robert Kazinsky
It was extended after World War I to honor Americans who have died in all wars. In the United
— Anonymous
I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal.
— Ralph Webster
The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.
— Kerry Greenwood
Was U.S. entry into World War I such an act of genius that criticizing it is necessarily perverse?
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.
— Sebastian Junger
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
Canada entered World War I as a colony and came out a nation ...
— Bruce Hutchison
The lights are going out all over Europe; We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. - SIR EDWARD GREY, ON WORLD WAR I
— Kristin Hannah
The delegates to the peace conference after World War I tried to impose a rational order on an irrational world.
— Margaret MacMillan
In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.
— John Maynard Keynes
In 1949, I saw a World War II veteran named Lou Brissie, who had nearly lost a lower leg in combat, pitch in the All-Star Game in Brooklyn.
— George Vecsey
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
— Ken Follett
The one thing that I'm most proud of, during the Second World War, I worked on airplanes in a defense plant.
— Ruth Duccini
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
I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people.
— Selma Diamond
I will be so glad for you to hear not the sounds of gunfire but the sounds of church bells, and of people working in peace.
— Elizabeth Berg
I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
— Dan Rather
The financial interdependence of the world's banks is like the interlocking alliances that predated World War I.
— Dick Morris
Every show you do, you have to do research, and I love to dig into things. I learned about World War II by doing 'Anne Frank.'
— Seth Numrich
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
— Doris Lessing
The world after a war is a good world, I told myself. A happy world. A secure world. In this world, I might do anything.
— Jennifer Niven
I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders.
— Lindsey Graham
My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had.
— William Westmoreland
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
— A.S. Byatt
I firmly believe that nuclear war is absolutely impossible. I don't think anyone in the world wants a nuclear war - not even the Russians.
— Frank Sinatra
I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.
— Ernst Zundel
Whenever I think of this attack, my stomach turns over.
— Adolf Hitler
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
I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Do you guys ever think about how Hitler has affected the whole world? That just one man did all this? I mean, what if he had been a good man, instead?
— Elizabeth Berg
I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved something I could identify with.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.
— Phil Donahue
I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.
— John Kasich
I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.
— Stefan Heym
My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
— Walter Kohn
Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
— Patrick Macnee
I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do.
— Steven Galloway
If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.
— Winston Churchill
The world is wrong. I'm just doing my part to fix it.
— Ryan Graudin
Look at me, here I am. Hitler is nothing but ashes.
— Annette Libeskind Berkovits
My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon.
— Frank Carson
For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.
— Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon ... [disgustedly] in Cardiff!
— Russell T. Davies
I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
But I supposed love doesn't stop, even in wars.
— Monica Hesse
I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war.
— John Edward Christopher Hill
I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.
— Vivienne Westwood
I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked.
— Roger Hilsman
During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time.
— Erik Larson
I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
— Antonio Tabucchi
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
Viewed as drama, World War I is somewhat disappointing.
— D.W. Griffith
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People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?
— Elizabeth Berg
I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.
— Diane Kruger
I wonder if they were aware of the power of complimentary alcohol during World War I.
— Pawan Mishra
In her head is warAll the time just war
I put her to bed
I bring peace to the world — Darnell Lamont Walker
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
I was a lieutenant in World War II.
— John Eisenhower
What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.
— Ellen Glasgow
But I'll tell you the truth: The world needs more peacemaker instead of warmonger.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
