World War Quotes

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

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.

In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

We learned the value of research in World War II.

We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.

The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.

In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.

I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.

What saved the economy, and the New Deal, was the enormous public works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy’s needs.

I was trying to do like a spaghetti western but using World War II iconography.

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.

We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.

World War II proves there's no God.

One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World War III (may it never come) will be the mathematicians' war.

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.

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

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

The immediate cause of World War III is the military preparation of it.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

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.

The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.

I'm not worried about the Third World War. That's the Third World's Problem.

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.

The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion? Why aren't they having a conclave; why aren't they coming together?

Whatever bro, tell it to the whales

However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.

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.

I realize it is normal to argue. I almost missed World War II watching my parents fight.

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.

Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands.

We're still eating the leftovers of World War II.

When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.

Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war.

The land of unlimited opportunity was for me, for a long time, impossible to reach. The wall, barbed wire and the order to shoot at those who tried to leave limited my access to the free world.

All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.

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

The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II.

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.

my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.

When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon

Post World War II America draws a great deal of interest, but the students also seem to know quite a bit about American exceptionalism and its historical roots.