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

    It is so manifestly incompatible with those precautions for our peace and safety, which all the great powers habitually observe and enforce in matters affecting them, that a shorter water way between our eastern and western seaboards should be dominated by any European government, that we may confidently expect that such a purpose will not be entertained by any friendly power.
    Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)

    my face I don’t mind it,
    Because I’m behind it—
    ‘Tis the folks in the front that I jar.
    Anthony Euwer (1877–1955)

    The world is not merely the world. It is our world. It is not merely an industrial world. It is, above all things, a human world.
    Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)

    The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn’t.
    Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)