World War I

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

    ... near a war it is always not very near.
    Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist?
    Sydney Smith (1771–1845)

    Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920’s and 1930’s when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother’s keeper.
    Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)