Elliott Carter Quotes

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got to leave combat after 25 missions, or 35 missions, but other than that, you were in it. You were part of the great effort, until, oh boy, six months after it was over.

Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.

Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.

For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.

When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

In World War II, the book you have in front of you, it was said and it is probably true, that there was not a single American who did not know the name of somebody serving in uniform.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.

In my grandfather's day, there was a different perspective on war and men that went into war; it was such a patriotic act to fight for your country in the Forties.

I wanted to write a song about war and that classic 'We want you' recruitment style from the point of view of the recruiter.

World War II really fascinated me because it's the only time that everybody in this country sat down at the same table, because eating on rations was your patriotic duty.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.

I grew up with the Gene Kelly look at war. The cheerful kind of stories you tell about a horrendous war.

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.

Sure, I acted in films in the Third Reich, entertainment films, which distracted countless people inside and outside Germany from daily life during war.

Washington crossed the Delaware to win our freedom : we cross oceans to keep it : Buy war stamps & bonds