Great War Quotes
Sober lines on wartime history, leadership, and memory
This collection looks at the Great War through quotes on leadership, shared blame, and the long shadow conflict leaves on later generations. For related themes, see our history quotes collection.
We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.
We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East -...
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In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.
Conflict Quotes
A great war shall burst forth from fishes of steel. Machines of flying fire, lobsters, grasshoppers, mosquitoes. The mass attacks shall be repulsed in the woods, when no child in Germany shall obey any longer.
The example afforded before the Great War by Germany - which, if only it had exercised forbearance for another five or ten years, would by now be unrivaled in Europe - suggests that the task facing us now is to...
General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career.
I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders - to the rolling, heat-miraged downlands of the Somme - for I am dead with them,...
Courage Quotes
The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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One quote notes that wartime allies were judged by their leadership even where their broader record, including grave brutality, was widely condemned. Also see our conflict quotes page.
