Paul Johnson Quotes

If Western civilization is to be saved from another relapse into the Dark Ages, it must be saved at the peace table.

When my elders mentioned 'The War,' they invariably meant that of 1914-1918, even after 1939, for the Second World War was merely the continuation of the first, 'an armistice of 20 years,' as Marshal Foch had accurately predicted at the Versailles Peace Conference, with some changes of side.

The threat of a world war is no more.

The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King of England, the Kaiser and the Tsar married Queen Victoria's granddaughter. And that triggered Communism in Russia and Fascism in Germany and led to the Second World War.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

The First World War not only destroyed European civilisation and the empires at its heart; its aftermath led to a second conflagration, the Second World War, which divided the continent until the end of the century.

I wish we could see understanding the First World War as a European issue, or even a global one, and not a nationalistic one.

War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states

I can only tell you this and I used to speak about it all the time, we have a Navy that hasn't been in this position since World War I.

shane: so is world war fifteen over out there? claire:i think so

Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.

Nobody's interests are served by what's happening in Syria today. It's a catastrophe. It's the worst human catastrophe since World War II. And, as I said just now, it represents a failure of the entire international community to come to grips with solving it.

We are trying to prevent a third world war.

A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time.

"World War III, was the Cold War".

If in the modern world wars have unfortunately to be fought (and they do, it seems) then they must be stopped at the first possible moment, otherwise they corrupt us, they create new problems and make our future even more uncertain. That is more than morality; it's sense.

War is the supreme failure of bridging the differences between nations.

We supplicate all rulers not to remain deaf to the cry of mankind. Let them do everything in their power to save peace. By so doing they will spare the world the horrors of a war that would have disastrous consequences, such as nobody can foresee.

There will be no veterans of World War III.

England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War… I love it.

We will not really address our foreign policy and these endless wars that show no end in sight and seem to be getting deeper and broader and more catastrophic with each passing day.

The War That Will End War.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

We helped generate that international law coming out of a very difficult and hard-won experiences in the First and Second World War. And I think we need to abide by that experience and our good judgment coming out of these catastrophes. We need to support that.