#world war i

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I. ↗

— George McGovern

#because #dakota #debt #growing #growing up

When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy. ↗

— Graham Nash

#became #began #beings #better #better way

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I. ↗

— Douglass North

#before #born #both #brother #brother and sister

And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen. ↗

— Oliver North

#documented #ii #much #never #seen

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. ↗

— Oliver North

#country #even #fact #far #fewer

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. ↗

— Oliver North

#book #did #front #ii #know

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#about #after #ago #assault #began

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#behind #being #bewildered #could #fence

We are spending more as a percentage of our entire economy, almost 25 percent, than we have spent at any time since the end of World War II. ↗

— John Thune

#any #economy #end #entire #ii

I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#approach #better #capitalist #century #challenges