Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.
James F. Byrnes
WarPeopleSufferingWorldImportant
Both of my grandfathers served in World War II, both in the Pacific. One wouldn't talk about it, and one would.
Nancy Dubuc
WarWorldTalkWorld War IIWould
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.
Emily Greene Balch
WarWorldFirstEuropeLeftAway
The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.
Wilhelm Keitel
SuccessWomenChildrenWarDuty
I was part of a government that tried to resolve the question of Kosovo by war. Perhaps there is some justice that today I should be the person most responsible for finding a peaceful solution.
Ivica Dacic
TodayJusticeGovernmentWarFinding
Far from being aberrant and un-British, criticising a war in which our troops are actively engaged is a long-established parliamentary and political tradition.
Linda Colley
WarPoliticalTraditionBeingFar
You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
T Bone Burnett
MusicWarMeYouKnowHatred
I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape.
Gore Vidal
WarKnowEscapeHeroesHowEver
The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the 'New York Times' or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.
H. R. McMaster
WarNew YorkCollegeLostNewFront
The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.
Charles B. Rangel
WarAmericaTaxPresidentPolicy
When I was first sent from H.M.S. King Alfred to be interviewed by Goodeve in the Admiralty, I was furious. The War seemed to me, in June of 1940, to be desperately serious, and England in imminent peril of invasion.
Nevil Shute
WarKingMeSeriousFirstJune
As a peace activist, I am dismayed by the encouragement of aggressiveness and violence by television, movies, and war toys.
Benjamin Spock
PeaceI AmWarEncouragementMovies
You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.
James Hillman
WarBlameYouNobodySameFault
The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience.
Nancy Gibbs
FreedomCulturePeacePastWarLong
The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.
Emmanuel Jal
TimeWarWorldEndingThoughtFirst
I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
Will Rogers
WarNationPaidLastEnterTill
I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe.
Frank Scott
WarIdeasWorldWorld War ITouch
Working moms elevate themselves above stay-at-home moms, and stay-at-home moms try to put down working moms. It's a war in which both sides are trying to put the other one down.
Leslie Morgan Steiner
WarTryingDownTrySidesElevate
Germany has spent the decades since World War II in national penance for Nazi crimes. America spent the decades after the Civil War transforming Confederate crimes into virtues. It is illegal to fly the Nazi flag in Germany. The Confederate flag is enmeshed in the state flag of Mississippi.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
WarFlyWorldAmericaFlagVirtues
Britain in 1939 and 1940 really thought they were going to lose the war. It looked like they were going to lose. There was bombing every day, and people were literally starving.
Graham Moore
DayWarPeopleThoughtLoseGoing
Doing what we can to repair the world was instilled in me from an early age. I will never forget my siblings and me knitting squares for blankets to be sent to the troops during World War II. This was an inspiration from my mother.
Charles Bronfman
MotherAgeWarMeWorldDoing
I wish we could see understanding the First World War as a European issue, or even a global one, and not a nationalistic one.
Margaret MacMillan
WarWorldUnderstandingWishSee
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
GoodPeaceWarBadNever
How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?
Gunter Grass
WarAmericanCrimeAtomic BombSide
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