World War I Quotes - Page 11

• The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.

  George Crumb

  War, Sound, World

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• Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.

  John Cornyn

  War, Recovery, Law

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• 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.

  Warren Christopher

  War, President, World

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• War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  War, America, Would Be

  "Eyeing the Enemy". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. January 16, 2007.

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• When Arthur Schlesinger Sr. pioneered the 'presidential greatness poll' in 1948, the top five were Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jefferson. Only Wilson appears to be seriously fading, probably because his support for the World War I-era Sedition Act now seems outrageous; in this analogy, Woodrow is like the Doors and the Sedition Act is Oliver Stone.

  Chuck Klosterman

  War, Greatness, Doors

  Chuck Klosterman (2009). “Eating the Dinosaur”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.

  Hugh Bonneville

  War, World, Estates

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some people are saying there's going to be a third World War. I hope not. I really think this is a time that people can start to mend things by negotiations, dealings. We know about dealings, don't we? We have brilliant lawyers. Why don't we have brilliant lawyers standing up and working for peace?

  Yoko Ono

  War, Thinking, People

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• My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

  Darrell Issa

  Uncles, Father, Military

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• 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

  War, Thinking, Should Have

  "Restrepo co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington". Interview with Christopher Kompanek and Chris Kompanek, www.avclub.com. June 25, 2010.

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• World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations and restoration of their sovereign rights, the right of every nation to arrange its affairs as it wishes, economic aid to nations that have suffered and assistance to them in attaining their material welfare, restoration of democratic liberties, and destruction of the Hitlerite regime.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Integrity, Rights

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• The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.

  Condoleezza Rice

  War, Support, Balance

  "Condoleezza Rice RNC speech". RNC 2012: Condoleezza Rice delivers speech to Republican National Convention in Tampa, www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that.

  David McCullough

  War, Book, Europe

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed.

  Frederick Lenz

  War, Buddhism, Our World

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• People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people think. Many believe it's like Berlin at the end of World War II.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Beautiful, War, Believe

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• More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.

  Carol Vorderman

  War, Men, Bombers

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• I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.

  Sanford I. Weill

  War, People, Challenges

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

  Juan Williams

  War, People, Dying

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• During World War II, the Nazis put their victims into gas chambers and then incinerated them in ovens. While the Nazis took their victims to the incinerators, those who possess and threaten to use nuclear weapons plan to take these weapons - these portable incinerators - to the victims.

  David Krieger

  War, Nuclear, Use

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• I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the old values and culture. My grandparents had been reasonably well-off but they became quite poor, living in an attic apartment.

  Lisel Mueller

  War, Grandparent, World

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• The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

  Richard Holbrooke

  War, United States, Generations

  "The Last Mission" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2009.

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• Some societies are also more optimistic than others: the U.S. and Australia are my two picks Tell a European you think there’s a housing bubble and you’ll have a reasonable discussion. Tell an Australian and you’ll have World War III. Been there, done that!

  Jeremy Grantham

  War, Optimistic, Thinking

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• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

  Pat Barker

  War, World, Firsts

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• My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in rural Ohio in the 1950s, where my dad became the town doctor and I was born.

  Julie Salamon

  Country, Dad, War

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• I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945 that knocked me for a loop. The article explained that a military plane had crashed in an impossibly remote valley of New Guinea that had been nicknamed Shangri-La.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Military, War, June

  "Amazing Shangri-La rescue story". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. May 8, 2011.

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• If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified by the President and officers who have taken the oath and are under moral obligation to uphold it....they may substitute personal and arbitrary government-the first principle of the totalitarian system against which it has been alleged that World War II was waged-while giving lip service to the principle of constitutional government.

  Charles A. Beard

  War, Taken, America

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