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If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.
— Ken Livingstone
If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.
— Kingsley Amis
We had to move forward after the war and see the realities.
— Joschka Fischer
War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.
— Samuel B. Pettengill
After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.
— Hugh Bonneville
Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.
— Irwin Winkler
Why is the N.F.L. so popular? The N.F.L. grew in the comfort zone after World War II. People had money and time. A popular American sport got bigger.
— George Vecsey
Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose
— Winston Churchill
After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance.
— John Cullum
Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is ... it made us an is.
— Shelby Foote
Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves ... After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do.
— Bill Hicks
After all, plans are one thing; then the battle happens.
— Aleksandra Layland
My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college - and, with four sons after the war, said he could still not afford to do so.
— Nigel Hamilton
It was extended after World War I to honor Americans who have died in all wars. In the United
— Anonymous
I went to work the next day out of curiosity, as people return to their villages after the war to see what is left.
— Miranda July
The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history.
— Bob Crow
My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
— William Lyon Phelps
I really think that the Liberal Party is dead and that one will simply have to think of men and policies after the war - not of parties.
— John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess Of Aberdeen And Temair
America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.
— Sam Kean
The delegates to the peace conference after World War I tried to impose a rational order on an irrational world.
— Margaret MacMillan
I wrote in the 'War of Art' that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
— Steven Pressfield
And Shalhassan of Cathal realized in that moment, standing between the fair brother and the dark, that he was not going to lead this war after all.
— Guy Gavriel Kay
News reports don't look at the land that existed before a war and the land that exists after a war. Reporting on war is a snapshot in time.
— Abigail Disney
It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.
— John Hewson
The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.
— Norman Finkelstein
On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess.
— Michael Lewis
I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.
— Eric Kandel
After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.
— Robert Mueller
After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.
— Dave Barry
After the 'war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a 'Peace to end Peace.
— Archibald Wavell
For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.
— Rand Paul
A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.
— Murray Kempton
Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.
— William Glasser
Can you hold off on the whole war thing until after I'm dead?
— Michelle Sagara West
I was a war correspondent and journalist for a long time, and I was very near the towers on 9/11 and very shortly after in Afghanistan.
— Peter Landesman
After all, the war doesn't alter my relationship with a blade of grass.
— Patrick Modiano
I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.
— Henry David Thoreau
I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved something I could identify with.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
— Stephen Kinzer
I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.
— Andre Dubus
In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.
— Atal Bihari Vajpayee
The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice - last spasms of Europe's severed arteries.
— Richard Aldington
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
— George Crumb
After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.
— Stella Blum
When I was young, a child never asked questions of his elders," Claire Deverill said.
"Was that before or after the First World War?" Matt asked. — Anthony Horowitz
"Was that before or after the First World War?" Matt asked. — Anthony Horowitz
After all, you can't really blame the Waffen S.S. for doing what comes naturally. But a funny thing happened on the way to the moral high ground.
— Garth Ennis
Act after having made assessments. The one who first knows the measure of far and near wins - this is the rule of armed struggle.
— Sun Tzu
After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.
— Martha Gellhorn
President George Bush declared a National Day of Prayer for Peace. This was after he had carefully arranged and started the war.
— George Carlin
In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.
— Tony Blair
Gentlemen, please," said the Patrician. He shook his head. "Let's have no fighting, please. This is, after all, a council of war.
— Terry Pratchett
I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.
— Bernhard Langer
The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
— A.J. Muste
Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
Part of my head will always be in the years after World War II - the five years before Korea started.
— Pete Hamill
After a glorious victory in a grand war, the hardest battle to fight is the first little skirmish of the next campaign.
— Pat Riley
When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.
— Rabih Alameddine
Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.
— Ninette De Valois
Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
— Wilfred Owen
It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war.
— Denis Johnson
After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
— Naoto Kan
As a lawyer, I could engage in killer litigation with the best of them. It was war, after all.
— Megyn Kelly
Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.
— Margaret Atwood
Experts say that if we go to war with Iraq, oil could reach as much as $80 a barrel. Of course, after the war it will be free.
— Jay Leno
Victory should never be handed to you; it should be like crawling up on the beach after war.
— Denise Wallace
When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury.
— Lee Myung-bak
The man who wins is the man who hangs on just five minutes longer after everyone else has quit.
— Douglas Southall Freeman
My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
— Robert Woodrow Wilson
Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.
— Eamon De Valera
Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.
— Elliott Abrams
I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War.
— Martin Sheen
The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
Flies trouble us not by their strength but by their multitudes.
— Nancy B. Brewer
After the war I was going to make up for lost time. But the time I spent away, it's still lost. No matter what I do, it stays lost.
— Steven Herrick
For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.
— James Fallows
CNN said that after the war, there is a plan to divide Iraq into three parts: regular, premium and unleaded.
— Jay Leno
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
— Ariel Gore
I can see the war that's coming and I can see the after-war, the food-queues and the secret police and the loudspeakers telling you what to think.
— George Orwell
I hate war ... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another ... after the war is on.
— Robert M. La Follette
Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war.
— David K. E. Bruce
The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
— Kenzaburo Oe
The world after a war is a good world, I told myself. A happy world. A secure world. In this world, I might do anything.
— Jennifer Niven
The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends.
— Julian Assange
Her netlink fished for information, telling her that the palace had been built after World War IV, when the city was little more than rubble.
— Marissa Meyer
The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.
— Will Rogers
This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.
— H.L. Mencken
10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?
— Alan Coren
People who, like me, grew up in the 1950s and 1960s after World War II, grew up with cars.
— Martin Winterkorn
The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.
— Gideon Raff
Anyway, there were more after the war than before.
— Hutton Gibson