World War I Quotes

I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'
Tom Hiddleston

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.
Peggy Noonan

War, Mind, Hard

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
Doris Lessing

War, Mother, Wanted

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
Lester B. Pearson

War, Soldier, Comrades

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.
George McGovern

War, Debt, Growing

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, Film

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.
Arlen Specter

Success, Money, Great

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

Best, War, Today

After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.
Leon Panetta

War, Deep, After

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
Herman Kahn

War, Race, Lack

History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.
Frank Gaffney

Men, History, War

I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.
Ben Barnes

Life, Family, War

We experienced similar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.
Daniel Yergin

War, End, Fears

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
C. L. R. James

War, Government, After

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
Richard Holbrooke

War, Inevitable, Historians

It was the same in World War I, when Woodrow Wilson, also a tool of the Jews, maneuvered it into the war.
Julius Streicher

War, Same, Tool

One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans.
Sebastian Junger

War, Humanity, Against

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, Before

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.
Douglass North

War, Father, Before

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.
Eliot Engel

War, Two, Simply

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
Walter Kohn

War, Father, Lost

During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.
Georg Solti

Life, War, Important

What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I.
Christopher Shays

Health, War, Bad

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.
Walter Kohn

Family, War, End

I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe.
Frank Scott

War, Touch, Ideas

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

Love, History, War

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