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The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers read more
The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time.
When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
All's fair in love and war.
All's fair in love and war.
And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars — all over Europe, all over the world. read more
And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars — all over Europe, all over the world. 'Sometimes in the private interest of royal families,' Satan said, 'sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose — there is no such war in the history of the race.
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore read more
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists,
nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of read more
Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists,
nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of
the Slavs will turn us from our aim of protecting and extending
German influence all the world over.
Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.
Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.
