#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

The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#balance #balance of power #defend #end #favors

Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#because #brought #cause #did #extent

I made a French film called "Merry Christmas" which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#christmas #european #film #french #i

My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize. ↗

— Mike Honda

#during #family #ii #japanese #my own

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

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era. ↗

— Ken Follett

#favorite #fourth #i #ii #middle

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

We experienced similar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#experienced #fears #i #ii #out

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#civil war #forward #history #ii #non