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“Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.”

Stills War Ends States Individual Lost Loss Serious Germany Assets Territory Historian Participation Colonization Meaning Nothing

Author:Gustav Stresemann

“More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.”

Men World War Belief Lost British Command Recognition War Of The Worlds World War I Beggar Second World War Bombers Servicemen

Author:Carol Vorderman

“While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.”

War Law Lost Failing Standards Claims Responsible Structure Protection Command Fighter Conventions Uniforms Initials Taliban Obeying Pow

Author:John Yoo

“The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.”

War Artist Individual Lost Modern Approach Definitions Acknowledgement Individual Life

Author:Maya Lin

“The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of The New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.”

War Lost Fronts New York Fields College Pages Vietnam New York Times Campus College Campus

Author:H. R. McMaster

“Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost by war.”

Author:Pope Pius XII

“I've already got the Kingdom of Heaven in my heart! That's my nationality, my citizenship, my Country!-A Country that's never persecuted the poor or oppressed the weak or destroyed small peoples of the World like America has. It's a Country that's never lost a battle and never fought a war for the wrong reason.”

World Heart War Country Reason America Lost Heaven Poor My Heart Battle Weak Kingdoms Destroyed Heavenly Oppressed Citizenship Nationality Kingdom Of Heaven Persecuted Wrong Reasons

Author:David Berg

“Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.”

People Feels War Ends Seems Lost Known Struggle Minutes Aliens Ties Coming Out Discomfort Confrontation Frivolous Resentful

Author:Lillian Hellman

“What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost? 'Tis better to have fought and lost That never to have fought at all!”

War Spirit Fall Lost Voice Bridges

Book:Arthur Hugh Clough: Selected Poems

Source: Arthur Hugh Clough: Selected Poems

“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.”

War Lost Kings Wages Emperor Back In The Day

Author:Daron Malakian

“Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.”

War Lost Battle Distance Empires Immense

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.”

Art War Use Lost Space Concerned Strategy Former Time And Space Lost Time Use Of Time

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that I've ever said, and I used it in the follies of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we can't confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on.”

“Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it has fallen in the hands of Mr. Rockefeller, who will take care of it and see that it has a good home and never be allowed to wander around unprotected again. There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war or famine, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.”

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

“What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America, or Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.”

“One thing I fear, that you Americans will do the same thing that you did after the last war. I mean that you will pull out of here and leave Europe, then Russia will have her way. Private enterprise and individual rights will be lost just as much as under a Nazi government. Frightful!”

Way Mean War Government Lasts Individual Lost Rights One Thing Europe Russia Enterprise Nazi Individual Rights Private Enterprise

Author:Hjalmar Schacht

“Having lost the last war, they are currently enjoying a "Wirtschaftswunder," which can be briefly translated as "The best way to own a Mercedes is to build one."”

Way War Lasts Lost Enjoy Best Way

Author:Alan Coren

“France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.”

War Lost Battle France

Author:Charles de Gaulle

“The last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the people want to be free, if they want to lift themselves out from underneath a state apparatus that threatens their liberties, squanders their resources on needless wars, destroys the value of the dollar, and spews forth endless propaganda about how indispensable it is and how lost we would all be without it, there is no force that can stop them.”

People Ifs Want War States Lasts Values Lost Force Lines Liberty Support Resources Constitution Dollars Defense Endless Lifts Propaganda Indispensable

Author:Ron Paul

“Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross economic inequality. But if you don't solve the population problem, you're not going to solve any of those problems. Whatever problem you're interested in, you're not going to solve it unless you also solve the population problem. Whatever your cause, it's a lost cause without population control.”

“Hitler had the willpower of a demon and he needed it. If he didn't have such a strong willpower he couldn't have achieved anything. Don't forget, if Hitler had not lost the war, if he did not have to fight against the combination of big powers like England, America, and Russia - each one he could have conquered individually - these defendants and these generals would now be saying, 'Heil Hitler,' and would not be so damn critical.”

Ifs War Bigs America Fighting Lost Strong Forget Needed England Critical Russia Combination Damn Demon Willpower Strong Will Goering

Author:Hermann Goring

“War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.”

Ifs Men War Values Lost Regret Return Oneself Appreciation Resilience Sensitive Delicacy

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic and unreal to those who have lost the simple intuitions which are the test of reality; and, as it is often found at war with its age, so it makes no account of history, which is fabled by the daughters of memory.”

War Reality Seems Age Poetry Found Lost Speak Memories Simple Daughter Tests Accounts Intuition Fantastic Revolt Unreal Actuality Artifice

Book:Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

“I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.”

Ifs World Feels Years Stills War Young Father Lost Felt Effects Dad Losing My Dad Connected War Of The Worlds Second World War

Author:Tom Hooper

“Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end all wars and wanted to make it so, now in this Second World War almost no writer that I have read dares even suggest that this is the war to end all wars, or act on that belief? We have lost the courage to hope.”

World War Ends Wanted Lasts Belief Lost Example Dare War Of The Worlds Tragic Second World War

Book:Between Tears and Laughter

Source: Between Tears and Laughter

“There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die”

People Has Beens War Ends Dies Lost Wind Meaning Of Life Apocalypse Rumor

Book:The Lyrics: 1961-2012

Source: The Lyrics: 1961-2012

“When it comes to the war in Iraq, the time for promises and assurances for waiting and for patience is over. Too many lives have been lost, too many billions of dollars have been spent for us to trust the president on another tired and failed policy that's opposed by generals and experts, Democrats and Republicans, Americans and many of the Iraqis themselves.”

Giving Has Beens War Country America Lost Waiting President Effort Struggle Policy Promise Republican Democrat Iraq Terror Billions Experts Assurance Iraq War Patience And Waiting Refocus

Author:Barack Obama

“On movies like Star Trek and Star Wars, you have so much that will be created or extended digitally, and it's a slippery slope where you can get lost in a world of synthetic.”

World War Lost Stars Slippery Slopes Synthetic Slippery Slope

Author:J. J. Abrams

“Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.”

War Lying Dies Lost Nations Carnage Promiscuous

Book:Cato. Dialogue on medals. Essay on Virgil's Georgies. Poemata. Poems on several occasions. Rosamond; an opera. Story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus

Source: Cato. Dialogue on medals. Essay on Virgil's Georgies. Poemata. Poems on several occasions. Rosamond; an opera. Story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus

“It would be a fine thing if war could be conducted as a game where no lives were lost. At the end of a battle combatants could meet [...] and drink and talk.”

Ifs War Ends Would Be Games Lost Fine Drink Battle Fine Things

Author:David Gemmell

“The German air offensives against British cities in World Wars I and II not only failed to coerce the United Kingdom to surrender, but Germany also lost both wars.”

World War Lost United Cities Air British Surrender Kingdoms War Of The Worlds Germany World War I Offensive United Kingdom Coerce

Author:John Mearsheimer

“If there is a class war - and there is - it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones.”

Ifs Want Should Important War Lost Class Skills Inequality Subtlety Lost Ones

Author:Maurice Cowling

“Zhukov was the most successful commander of World War II, who fell from grace under Khrushchev, but never lost his place in the pantheon of Soviet heroes.”

World War Lost Successful Grace Hero War Of The Worlds Soviet World War Ii World War I Commanders Pantheon

Author:Georgy Zhukov

“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.”

Writing Heart War Lost Black History Blue Fallen Civil War Horizon American Civil War Archives Richmond

Book:Mary Chesnut's Diary

Source: Mary Chesnut's Diary

“When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to redefine this Southern myth and bring it in a more positive direction.”

Trying Mean War Lost White South Myth Civil War Southern Liberated

Author:William R. Ferris

“I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans.”

War Lost Vietnam

Author:Oliver Stone

“Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.”

War Order Lost Nations Destruction Internals Decay Great Nations

Author:Adolf Hitler

“I hope that the outside world will realise that Hitler's government has no idea of steering towards war, even though this has often been asserted abroad. As Adolf Hitler himself has said, Germany has no need of another war to avenge the loss of her military honour, because she never lost that honour. Germany does not want war of any kind. Germany wants real and abiding peace.”

World Want Needs Kind Doe Said Ideas War Real Government Lost Loss Military No Idea Germany Honour Realising Abiding Outside World Steering

Author:Rudolf Hess

“You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.”

Has Beens War Lost Difficult Battle Prove Campaigns Logistics

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“What mighty ills have not been done by woman! Who was't betray'd the Capitol? A woman; Who lost Mark Antony the world? A woman; Who was the cause of a long ten years' war, And laid at last old Troy is ashes? Woman; Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!”

World Years Long War Done Lasts Lost Causes Women Ten Mark Destructive Betray Ashes Capitol Deceitful Antony

Book:The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes

Source: The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes

“No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution and terror. Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him.”

Men War Feelings Lost Generations Modern Loneliness Revolution Achievement Institutions Terror Disappointment Providence Technological Inferiority Our Generation Modern Man Lost Faith

Book:Aspects of I.B. Singer

Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer