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

Amity Shlaes

Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.

Barbara Amiel

Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened, surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective.

David K. E. Bruce

Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam.

Dan Jenkins

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

Dan Rather

In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter.

Elliott Abrams

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.

Fritz Sauckel

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Isaac Asimov

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Isaac Asimov

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

John Boyd Orr

My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.

Jane Seymour

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.

Jim Webb

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

Ken Follett

As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality.

Mike Rogers

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

Martin Scorsese

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

Phil Donahue

Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

R. W. Apple, Jr.

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

Richard Holbrooke

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

Robert Kiyosaki

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

Stephen Ambrose

The world has already been saved from war. The question is how Christians can and should live in a world of war as a people who believe that war has been abolished.

Stanley Hauerwas