What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?
I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
We prayed these wars would end all wars -- In war we know is no romance." ( )
There is no such thing as a “war hero”, because there is nothing about war that is heroic.
In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.
God does not make war? God makes us, and we make war. God makes war.
I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'
The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.
By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the end of World War II in 1945 was the dawn of a new golden age of the American Novel, like the Hemingway-Dos Passos-Fitzgerald era after World War I.
Author says the ineffectual U.S. Navy of two centuries ago lost two thirds as many men to duelist bullets as to sea hazards.
In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enj...
The Caucus I joined in 1953 had as many Boer War veterans as men who had seen active service in World War II, three from each. The Ministry appointed on 5 December 1972 was composed entirely of ex-servicemen: Lance Barnard and me.
Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.
This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will...
There's a basis for the war, historically, in the 'Hunger Games,' which would be the third servile war, which was Spartacus' war, where you have a man who is a slave who is then turned into a gladiator who broke out of the gladiator school and led a ...
Sometimes, a war saves people.
In the German tongue, in the Polish town Scraped flat by the roller Of wars, wars, wars ...
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.
My father was in the First World War.
