world war quotes

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.Dave Brubeck




During the Second World War, nobody built any concert halls or theaters. After the war, Lincoln Center was a very brave project because all those architects had never built a theater before. We've learned a lot since then about the nature of materials and the isolation that's required.Hugh Hardy


The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.Richard Holbrooke


Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called 'Why We Fight' that explored America's reasons for entering the war. Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think it's crucial to ask the questions: 'Why are we doing what we are doing? What is it doing to others? And what is it doing to us?'Eugene Jarecki

I'd say my mother made more of a difference to me than anyone else did. I know that's a conventional and perhaps mundane answer, but my family was blown apart at the start of World War II.Herb Kelleher

However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.Walter Kohn

My father was in the First World War.Doris Lessing




I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.Dan Rather

The thing about World War II is that everyone knows about the concentration camps in Europe - in Nazi Germany and Poland and Auschwitz and the other camps - but, no one really talks about the camps that were here in the United States.Lea Salonga

The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain factors which bore within them the seeds of instability.Eisaku Sato

