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“In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.”
“If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.”
“The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism,...”
“The great object is that every man be armed.”
“Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative ...”
“Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.”
“A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.”
“Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.”
“He would never understand women, he thought. They were life’s great mystery.”
“It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everybody would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.”
“Being needed is a great thing. Maybe the great thing.”
“Great men can’t be ruled... The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional.”
“In great moments life seems neither right nor wrong but something greater: it seems inevitable.”
“I have great respect for the semicolon it is a mighty handy little fellow.”
“Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks they are the summits of ranges.”
“We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading.”
“Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.”
“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.”
“I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”
“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”
