The Great War Quotes

The Great War Quote of the day

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

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.

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.

We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.

‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

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.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

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.

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.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

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.

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.

Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe.

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.

Great wars can only be fought by great powers.

when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

Mute in that golden silence hung with green, Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyesRemembrance of all beauty that has been, And stillness from the pools of Paradise.

They called it the Great War, but that implied worthiness and grandeur, not violence and helplessness and the utter waste and devastation our country, our city, our people endured.

So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)

The landscape had been so maimed by this new kind of warfare it was as if human architects of great genius had sat down to plan hell, since no two of them could agree on the design of heaven.