I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my ...
It was the same in World War I, when Woodrow Wilson, also a tool of the Jews, maneuvered it into the war.
The fear of war is worse than war itself.
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.
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.
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.
Baathism in Iraq equals Nazism in Germany.
The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be br...
This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.
World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.
[first lines] Brent Tarleton: What do we care if we *were* expelled from college, Scarlett? The war is gonna start any day now, so we'd have left college anyhow. Stuart Tarleton: War! Isn't it exciting, Scarlett? You know those fool Yankees actually ...
World War II proves there's no God.
I was a lieutenant in World War II.
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.
'War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.
War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war. Our attitude towards the fearful necessity of war ought to be stern. It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war...
What we now have in Iraq is a defeat.
