Famous Quotes

"World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism."

Stephen Ambrose on War

More quotes about War

• "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."

  Albert Einstein on War

• "One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on War

• "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."

  Albert Einstein on War

• "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on War

• "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender."

  Winston Churchill on War

More quotes by Stephen Ambrose

• "Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death."

• "I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education."

• "The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future."

• "The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future."

• "You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school."