World War I Quotes - Page 5

• Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Looks, World

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• The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies; some were kept on to entertain the tourists, like the one they have in England.

  Ishmael Reed

  War, Democracy, Tourists

  Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books

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• The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

  Adam Hochschild

  War, Our World, Way

  "WWI: The Battle That Split Europe, And Families". "All things considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 30, 2011.

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• There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, August, Years

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.168, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what's going on today?

  Tom Hanks

  Dog, War, Yellow

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

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• 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.

  Bryant Gumbel

  Country, War, People

  "'Behind the Bias': How Media's Hostility Towards GOP Began". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. April 22, 2011.

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• December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Air Force, December

  Address to joint session of Congress asking for declaration of war on Japan, 8 Dec. 1941

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• You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.

  James Cagney

  War, Struggle, Tired

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

  George Kennedy

  War, Loss, Umpires

  "Movies, Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids". audiologyonline.com interview, www.audiologyonline.com. May 2, 2005.

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• The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Winning, World

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• Long before there was discrimination against blacks, there was discrimination against white southerners. When large numbers of these country people moved north during World War II, they were aggressively excluded from neighborhoods, jobs, and homes - not because of their skin color, but their accents.

  Ann Coulter

  Country, Jobs, War

  "Web Extra: Read an Exclusive Excerpt of Ann Coulter's New Book", abcnews.go.com. September 23, 2012.

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• 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.

  Celine Buckens

  War, Book, Two

  "Celine Buckens’ Horse Sense". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 16, 2011.

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• 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

  Jobs, War, Wife

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• Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant 1993 dollars. The War on Poverty has cost us 70 % more than the total price tag for defeating both Germany and Japan in World War II, after adjusting for inflation. Many believe that Welfare has destroyed millions of families and cost a huge portion of our national wealth in the process.

  Rush Limbaugh

  War, Believe, Japan

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• The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time.

  Studs Terkel

  Funny, Jobs, War

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• There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

  Edward Abbey

  Veterans Day, Peace, War

  Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

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• The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Attitude, War, America

  "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives". Book by Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1997.

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• All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?

  Studs Terkel

  Jobs, War, Book

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly", www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• 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.

  Rand Paul

  War, Doctors, Needs

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• I made a French film called "Merry Christmas" which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

  Diane Kruger

  Christmas, War, Europe

  "Diane Kruger for 'Troy'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. May 6, 2004.

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• Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  War, Women, Doe

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• I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You went o r you didn't, but the fact of it and the decisions it forced us to make marked us for the rest of our lives, just as the depression and World War II had marked my parents.

  Linda Grant

  Depression, War, Decision

  Linda Grant (1991). “Blind Trust”, Fawcett Books

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• There will be no veterans of World War III.

  Walter F. Mondale

  War, World, Veteran

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• They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.

  Howard K. Smith

  War, Issues, Wish

  "Newscaster Howard K. Smith dies at 87". www.cnn.com. February 18, 2002.

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• The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.

  Howard Fineman

  Country, War, Media

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