Quotes of: World-wars Keyword

I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?'

Clint Eastwood

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

The Kosovars were granted autonomy at the end of World War II, but then aspiring president Milosevic had the autonomy revoked in 1989, and the Dayton Accords of 1995, which ended the recent war in Bosnia and Croatia, failed to address the issue of Ko...

Sebastian Junger

American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.

Elliott Abrams

I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.

Don Rickles

I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.

Eric Kandel

I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

Jessica Brown Findlay

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

Ramsey Clark

The one thing that I'm most proud of, during the Second World War, I worked on airplanes in a defense plant.

Ruth Duccini

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

Stephen Bayley

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most pow...

Noam Chomsky

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

John F. Kennedy

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

Diane Kruger

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.

Steven Spielberg

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

Clint Eastwood

For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work.

Cathleen Schine

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

Darrell Issa

Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.

Elliott Abrams

My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning of World War I when they were still very young.

Eric Kandel

Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

George Kennedy

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

Sebastian Junger