South-east Asian Theatre of World War II

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

    We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony—periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

    ‘Where is the world?’ cries Young, at eighty. ‘Where
    The world in which a man was born?’
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)