- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fishes
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Great War was nobody's fault - or everybody's.
- Calmly
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 build up our strength calmly and with circumspection.
- Danger
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- Nov 07, 2020