"War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth." ― Ernie Pyle Topic(s): War More From Ernie Pyle "I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them." "Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges." More In War "World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism."― Stephen Ambrose "The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever."― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn "We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war."― Arthur Henderson