“ Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I failed at first to see) had been… Christopher Hitchens
“ Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87 Mona Rodriguez
“ Yea ! by your works are ye justified--toil unrelieved ;Manifold labours, co-ordinate each to the sending achieved ;Discipline, not of the feet but the soul, unremitting, unfeigned ;Tortures unholy by… Gilbert Frankau
“ After the 'war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a 'Peace to end Peace. Archibald Wavell
“ From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a phase of having large groups of people carried away by some emotion--some alluring, attractive, even… Franklin D. Roosevelt
“ They used to call it the 'Great War'. But I'll be damned if I could tell you what was so 'great' about it. They also called it 'the war to end all wars'...'cause they figured it was so big and awful t… Max Brooks
“ If the ghost that haunts the towns of Ypres and Arras and Albert is the staturory British Tommy, slogging with rifle and pack through its ruined streets to this well-documented destiny ‘up the line’,… Lyn Macdonald
“ I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece. Diane Kruger
“ World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race. Herman Kahn
“ Rather, both sides fought as soldiers fought in most wars—for survival, and to protect the men who had become extended family. Stanley Weintraub
“ On both sides in 1915 there would be more dead on any single day than yards gained in the entire year. And there would be nearly four more years of attrition—not to determine who was right, but who wa… Stanley Weintraub
“ Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction. Saul David
“ Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful. Amity Shlaes
“ Lewis's mental map of reality had difficulty accommodating the trauma of the Great War. Like so many, he found the settled way of looking at the world, taken for granted by many in the Edwardian age,… Alister E. McGrath
“ In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939. Michael Korda
“ ...My deepest personal reason for staying in Paris is that whatever I have as a character, good or bad, is based on the fact that since the age of four I have never run away from anything however pain… William C. Bullitt
“ What makes a human being want to kill another who has done him no personal harm? Patriotism. Theresa Breslin
