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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment. -- Ralph Adams Cram
The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again. -- Anne Sullivan Macy
In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War. -- Chuck Jones
In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not. --
In the beginning of the Great War, the emotions of Europe ran riot in a most horrible manner, first among the so-called 'living,' and then among the killed when they awoke. -- Max Heindel
The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted. -- Laurence Housman
I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders - to the rolling, heat-miraged downlands of the Somme - for I am dead with them, and they live in me again. -- Henry Williamson
The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again. -- Anne Sullivan Macy
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
Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one. -- A. J. P. Taylor
Unscrupulous agitators have been at work spreading atrocity stories which can only be compared with those lies that were fabricated by the same instigators at the beginning of the Great War. -- Adolf Hitler
The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought. -- Winston Churchill
The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian, Bulgarian, Austrian and German home fronts fell to pieces before their armies collapsed. -- David Lloyd George
More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them. -- Winston Churchill
This is a war to end all wars. -- Woodrow Wilson
This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged. -- Alfred von Tirpitz
If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war. -- Joseph Joffre
We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany. -- H. G. Wells
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly. -- Wilfred Owen
I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon. -- Henry Ford
However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans. -- Rudyard Kipling
This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it. -- H. G. Wells
Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now. -- Lisa Gardner
We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held. -- W. Averell Harriman
We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We were bent on doing great, permanent noble things. -- Harold Nicolson
General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career. -- Henry Villard
I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth and import and it's successful. -- Rod Serling
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene. -- Ernest Hemingway
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The cries of the wounded had much diminished now, and as we staggered down the road, the reason was only too apparent, for the water was right over the tops of the shell-holes. -- Edwin Campion Vaughan
At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed it, while their females admired them for their prowess. -- Bertrand Russell
A great war shall burst forth from fishes of steel. Machines of flying fire, lobsters, grasshoppers, mosquitoes. The mass attacks shall be repulsed in the woods, when no child in Germany shall obey any longer. -- Nostradamus
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies. -- David Mamet
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. -- Lester B. Pearson
In the mind of all the English soldiers there is absolutely no hate for the Germans, but a kind of brotherly though slightly comtemptuous kindness - as to men who are going through a bad time as well as ourselves. -- Ivor Gurney
There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers. -- Ernest Hemingway
The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions - but in many ways it left even deeper scars both on the mind and on the map of Europe. The old world never recovered from the shock. -- Edmond Taylor
Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounded would have given far more than that to escape as they have, and the unwounded regard the money as a consolation prize for still being here. -- Robert Graves
And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of official gentlemen, living luxurious lives, mostly stupid, and all without imagination or heart, have chosen that it should occur rather than that any one of them should suffer some infinitesimal rebuff to his country`s pride. -- Bertrand Russell
I look upon the People and the Nation as handed on to me as an responsibility conferred upon me by God, and I believe, as it is written in the Bible, that it is my duty to increase this heritage for which one day I shall be called upon to give an account. Whoever tries to interfere with my task I shall crush. -- Wilhelm II
We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization. -- Robert Fisk
As a result of continuous work with these highly toxic substances, our minds were so numbed that we no longer had any scruples about the whole thing. Anyway, our enemies had by now adopted our methods and as they became increasingly successful in this mode of warfare we were no longer exclusively the aggressors, but found ourselves more and more at the receiving end. -- Otto Hahn
In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not. All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault. -- Paul von Hindenburg
Would you end war? Create great Peace. -- James Oppenheim
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. -- John Adams
A great country cannot wage a little war. -- Duke of Wellington
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. -- Albert Pike
One has renounced the great life when one renounces war. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. -- John F. Kennedy
The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves. -- Ty Cobb
Free speech is a great idea, but were in a war. -- Lindsey Graham
When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner. -- Laozi
A great country can have no such thing as a little war. -- Duke of Wellington
In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns. -- Sun Tzu
Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. -- Seneca the Younger
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. -- Albert Einstein
All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. -- Kenneth Clark
All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. -- Kenneth Clark
The moral is obvious it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war. -- Edward Dunlop
So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war! -- Abraham Lincoln
Great way to fight a war - be prepared to defend yourself for winning. -- Chris Kyle
No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war. -- Theodore Roosevelt
This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war. -- Andrew Jackson
I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake. -- Pierre Laval
It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal. -- Amitabh Bachchan
In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it! -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war. -- William Graham Sumner
I hate to say it, but I had a great time in World War II. -- Andy Rooney
War is a need by a country that wants power, but the USA is already great -- Tim Clisch
Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe. -- Maud Hart Lovelace
War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. -- John S. Mosby
...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology. -- Murray Rothbard
One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888). -- Otto von Bismarck
I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west. -- Rodney Dangerfield
In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war. -- James Meade
The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come. -- Thomas Jefferson
Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? -- Kurt Vonnegut
Satan is attacking the great institutions of America. This is a spiritual war. I believe in good and evil. -- Rick Santorum
We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war. -- Joshua Ferris
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 man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war. -- Wendell Willkie
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. -- Jon Meacham
The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. -- Ulysses S. Grant
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. -- A. J. P. Taylor
War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate. -- Zoroaster
If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month. -- Alan Gorrie
I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies. -- John Dingell
After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression. -- Dave Barry
My father [Erwin Rommel] believed that Germany should have a great interest to leave the war with a peace under conditions. -- Manfred Rommel
I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander. -- Douglas MacArthur
Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory. -- Michael Hastings
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.
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality. -- James A. Garfield
War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others. -- Carl von Clausewitz
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I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life . -- Maya Angelou
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
The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention. -- Bob Graham
We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general. -- Winston Churchill
Combat is my profession and fighting was a great way to maintain a combat mindset while preparing to lead Marines in war. -- Brian Stann
The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom. -- Jeff Sharlet
War created the conditions for great advances in technologywithout war men would not traverse oceans in hours, travel in space, or microwave popcorn. -- Adrian R. Lewis
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
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
The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever. -- William Osler
I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read. -- Rabih Alameddine
England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. -- Abraham Lincoln
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
in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future. -- Jacqueline Winspear
To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it. -- James Risen
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
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective. -- Rand Paul
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war! -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war. -- Abraham Lincoln
The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962. -- Pankaj Mishra

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