World War Quotes

Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.

The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since World War II?

Before World War II in Canada, you were nobody until you went to England. Then, after that it was you're nobody until you went to the States.

And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen

No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance to fight for God and country.

We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically before World War II.

From 1965 to 1973, more munitions fell on Cambodia than on all of World War II Japan, including the two nuclear bombs of August 1945.

We are trying to prevent a third world war.

The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?

We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.

Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?

The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace.

Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you

There are some things you never say good-bye to

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.

We find ourselves in what I consider to be the most challenging, difficult, threatening time since World War II because of this War on Terror.

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me.

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict

More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

We lived through a relatively golden age between the end of World War II and Sept. 11, 2001.

I hate to say it, but I had a great time in World War II.

World War II synchronizes things for a lot of people. There's a kind of wakeup call.

What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to all those who don't, its meaning can never be fully understood!

I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II.

The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.

I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.

We have an Army that hasn't been in this position since World War II, in terms of levels and in terms of readiness and in terms of everything else. We are not capable like we have to be.

Violence doesn't solve anything? World War I. World War II. Star Wars. Every Super Bowl. Who says violence doesn't solve anything?

All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.

The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.

The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

John Wayne was just a very conservative guy, who had not served in World War II, and he was defensive about that - he almost overcompensated his anti-Communism because of that reason.

We are all proud of is World War II where we went in, we were decisive, we came to the conclusion that freedom prevailed, and we were heroes.

The explosion of the Web and digital media from 1995 to 2000 shook companies more profoundly in a shorter time than anything since the end of World War II.

For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede rising living standards.

All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.

I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.

Being born in '31 was during the Depression and in my earlier youth World War II took place - so it was not the best of times, and yet I don't recall ever having experiences that were a burden.

After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.

I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they are always looking forward and seldom back.

Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

I did not believe in the war. I thought it was wrong to go into any war. And I got to the war, and saw the Germans, and I changed my mind. I decided we were right going into World War II.

It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in World War II, I might have been writing about D-Day over and over again.

Largely, as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.