Quotes About History

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?

More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.

We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon.

The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.

The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor!

The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.

Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.

War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.

In war and in peace, in prosperity and times of economic hardship, America has no better friend or more dependable ally than the United Kingdom.

Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.

America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.

Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success.

Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.

We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era.

If the Nazis have been destroyed it's because America got into the war. They went for it and they got into the fight.

In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.

Relax," Chiron told me. "Keep a clear head. And remember, you may be about to prevent the biggest war in human history." "Relax," I said. "I'm very relaxed.

The [Confederate] Flag is - literally - sewed division. People claim it means different things to different people, but it harkens back to the pro-slavery side of the war.