When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land.

In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.