Quotes About History

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.

This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged.

The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.

Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history.

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.

General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.

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.

There will be no veterans of World War III.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned.

War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

I was drinking tea the other day, and I thought: they used to fight wars over this.

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.

Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.

I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west.

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.