Western Front World War Ii/1941%e2%80%9344 - Interlude

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

    It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    You let me throw the bricks through the front window. You go in at the back and take the swag.
    Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    Feast, and your halls are crowded;
    Fast, and the world goes by.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855–1919)

    War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular.... War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it.... War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.
    Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)

    Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspection and interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism.
    John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)