Great War Quotes - Page 9

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

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Confused, War, World

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• 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

  War, Victory And Defeat, Should Have

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• I couldnt imagine something asking as much of me as House Of Cards. Its a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.

  Kevin Spacey

  House Of Cards, Asking, Imagine

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• As Churchill said about the Great War, and he said this in about 1924, that it was the first war in which man realized that he could obliterate himself completely. If you consider the way the whole world was impacted, 18 million people worldwide died, and that is taking into account military and civilian deaths: 18 million people. And it was the whole world, if you will. You know, many of those trenches were dug by Chinese. There are photographs of Chinese looking like they just came from China, with their hats and so on, digging the trenches, right from the beginning.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Military, War, Men

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it before battle.

  Troy Polamalu

  Warrior, Hair, Names

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• We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.

  Tony Curtis

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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• It was Harry Patch, who was the last living World War I veteran; and by veteran I mean someone who actually fought in the war, he didn't just happen to be in the army at that time, in the Great War. And when the Iraq War started, he was interviewed, and they said, well what do you think of this? And he said, in a very sad voice, "Well, that's why my mates died. We thought we were going to end all that sort of thing."

  Jacqueline Winspear

  War, Mean, Army

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The Holocaust is a great warning to us all. We shall never forget our sisters and brothers. We have to ensure it is not repeated and to ensure we never go back to the days when humans behaved as beasts. Forgetfulness is a menace, we must remember.

  Shimon Peres

  Brother, Holocaust, Warning

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• 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

  Writing, Successful, Zing

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Slavery, Causes

  Ulysses S. Grant (2013). “The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.”, p.510, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  War, Farewell, Tragedy

  "TheDC Interviews: David Mamet talks War". Interview with Patrick Howley, dailycaller.com. December 27, 2013.

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• The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Century, Made

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

  Chuck Jones

  War, Years, Radio

  "Oscar for Lifetime Achievement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• 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

  War, Cop, Novel

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• Great wars can only be fought by great powers.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  War, Great Power

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• Yara: Youre a great warrior. I saw the bodies above your gates. Which one gave you the tougher fight, the cripple or the six year old?

  Yara

  Fighting, Warrior, Years

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• The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  War, Progressive, Revelations

  RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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• I will no longer allow my obligation as a veteran to remember those who died in the great wars to be co-opted by current or former politicians to justify our folly in Iraq, our morally dubious war on terror and our elimination of one's right to privacy.

  Harry Leslie Smith

  War, Iraq, Dubious

  "This year, I will wear a poppy for the last time" by Harry Leslie Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2013.

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

  Ahad Ha'am

  War, Preparation, Needs

  "Wrestling with Zion" by Ahad Ha'am,

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• 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... Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility.

  Winston Churchill

  Christian, War, Struggle

  "The World Crisis, Volume I: 1911-1914". Book by Winston Churchill, 1923.

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• The US has unthinkingly embarked upon a neoimperial policy that must involve us in virtually every great war of the coming century-and wars are the death of republics. If we continue on this course of reflexive interventions, enemies will one day answer our power with the weapon of the weak-terror, and eventually cataclysmic terrorism on US soil.

  Pat Buchanan

  War, Enemy, One Day

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• If he descended from heaven today the great warrior who beat the money-traders you would shout your "crucifige!" and nail him to the cross which he himself bore. But he mildly smiles upon your hate: "The truth will prevail, even if the bearer falls; the faith will live, for I give my life ... and stand tall at the cross for all warriors of the world.

  Baldur von Schirach

  Hate, Fall, Warrior

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• 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

  War, Lying, Atrocities

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• 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

  Hope, War, Thinking

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• 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.

  James Vila Blake

  Country, War, Cutting

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