Chetniks/world War II

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

    “I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You went or you didn’t, but the fact of it and the decisions it forced us to make marked us for the rest of our lives, just as the depression and World War II had marked my parents.”
    —Linda Grant (b. 1949)

    “The world has held great Heroes,
    As history books have showed;
    But never a name to go down to fame
    Compared with that of Toad!”
    —Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932)

    “This people must cease to hold slaves, and to make war on Mexico, though it cost them their existence as a people.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)