Bombing of Kobe in World War II

Famous quotes containing the words bombing, world and/or war:

    “My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.”
    —Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)

    “To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but mediately to the understanding or reason?”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “Your length in clay’s now competent,
    A long war disturbed your mind;”
    —John Webster (c. 1580–1638)