World War Ii Quotes - Page 4

• Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World Government, Law

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• What we went to World War II for, at least in my mind, was not getting taken care of. It was supposed to be a brave new world, but we were getting back into the old ruts, and we were in a cold war with Russia.

  Al Feldstein

  War, Taken, Brave New World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Although the United States lost a quarter of a million men and women, civilians and soldiers, in World War II, that's considerably less than the Russians lost in soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad alone. It's important to convey to countries and to people and to generations who have no experience of the 20th century as it was lived in Europe just how catastrophic it was.

  Tony Judt

  Country, War, Men

  "Postwar". Interview With Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. December 20, 2005.

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• 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.

  Jay Baruchel

  War, World, Canada

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the long afternoon it would take for all the missiles and bombs to fall. A World War II every second-more people killed in the first few hours than all the wars of history put together. The survivors, if any, would live in despair amid the poisoned ruins of a civilization that had committed suicide.

  Jimmy Carter

  Suicide, War, Fall

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Jimmy Carter”

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• World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy to get securely out of this decline. This time, the war [in Iraq] is bad for the economy in both the short and long run. We could have spent trillions in research or education instead. This would have led to future productivity increases.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Running, War, Iraq

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Men, Skills

  'Fireside Chat' radio broadcast, 29 December 1940, in 'Public Papers' (1941) vol. 9, p. 643

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• What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Hate, War, World

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• One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us survivors a great deal about daily living which is valuable to us now that it is, ethically at least, a question of cold weapons and hot words.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  War, Taught Us, Hot

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked.

  Roger Hilsman

  War, Village Life, Done

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• When the Defense Department was established after World War II, a law said that any defense secretary with military experience must have been out of the military at least seven years. General [James] Mattis doesn't meet that.

  Steve Inskeep

  Military, War, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

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• A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Beach, Military, War

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• 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.

  Tom Brokaw

  War, Quality, World

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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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• ... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  War, Army, Opportunity

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• Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  War, People, London

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• I only take vitamin B complex. Before World War II, I used to take ionized yeast, because in the pre-war era we never heard about vitamins.

  John Gokongwei

  War, Eras, Vitamins

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• Coming into World War II, we were seen as a conquering hero for beleaguered people, we are now seen as invader, an occupier. And what that is saying is we have more might than right, so we kind of have a kind of moral deficit disorder. And that's why a leader must lift us back to the higher ground, because at the end of the day what makes you strong is that you are believable, that as significant as might is, ultimately right is even stronger than might.

  Jesse Jackson

  Strong, War, Hero

  "Reverend Jesse Jackson". "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. February 21, 2007.

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• Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified.... after a criseof hysterical revulsion and tiredness, I passed beyondand became entered by a rather sublime feeling.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Baby, Peace, War

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• All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  War, Mistake, Tables And Chairs

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.177, Random House

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• But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned between theory and applications in the physical sciences. Since World War II the discoveries that have changed the world are not made so much in lofty halls of theoretical physics as in the less-noticed labs of engineering and experimental physics. The roles of pure and applied science have been reversed; they are no longer what they were in the golden age of physics, in the age of Einstein, Schrödinger, Fermi and Dirac.

  Nicholas Metropolis

  War, Science, Engineering

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• We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

  Joe Baca

  War, Fighting, Democracy

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• World War II put feminism on hold for a long time; the men went away to fight, a lot of women in those years got jobs both in teaching and in factories - at all social levels - which they enjoyed very much. A lot of them were quite happy during the war.

  Margaret Drabble

  Jobs, War, Teaching

  Interview with Lydia Perović, www.believermag.com.

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• It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

  Ross Perot

  Country, War, Years

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• I think at the time, my radicalization was not through growing up Chinese, but through the role that the black people were playing at the beginning of World War II, when they had started the "Double V for Victory" movement - for democracy at home as well as abroad.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Growing Up, War, Home

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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