Gulzar Quotes

Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event, as if it had only just ended.

With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.

When the armistice was declared American forces had fought their way to Sedan.

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

GREAT WAR ENDS CHRISTMAS DAY. FORD TO STOP IT.

The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war.

At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States.

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th day of November, 1914. The zone became effective Nov. 5, 1914.

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

My attitude toward the war [WWI] was that it must be won at all costs.

This is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.

When my elders mentioned 'The War,' they invariably meant that of 1914-1918, even after 1939, for the Second World War was merely the continuation of the first, 'an armistice of 20 years,' as Marshal Foch had accurately predicted at the Versailles Peace Conference, with some changes of side.

What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?

I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me. I knew very extensively a lot about World War I.

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

My father was in the First World War.