The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged… — Warren Adler Copy Share Image
The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to… — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free… — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y.… — Deborah Kass Copy Share Image
Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed,… — Harald zur Hausen Copy Share Image
The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
A particular type of film emerged from World War Two, with the Italian neorealist school. It was perfectly right for its time,… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
In spite of the frightful pogroms which took place, first in Poland and then in unprecedented fashion in the Ukraine, and which… — Denis Fahey Copy Share Image
The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
In one sense, I have always felt glad to have had the war [World War II] in my childhood, because, as a… — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
Democracy takes work. That's the thing we're really finding out, that, you know, in many ways, you know, the past two decades… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Jewish history has been in my cultural DNA since I was a child growing up in post-war London. In the midst of… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of… — Kim Young-sam Copy Share Image
The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the night. Reporters spent days, sometimes weeks, on a… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
Government grew under [Ronald] Reagan. He was the strongest opponent of free markets in the post-war history among presidents. But it doesn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
'Collaborator' is a hostage tragicomedy, but it's also, kind of, everything I know about post-war America. Well, not everything, but it does… — Martin Donovan Copy Share Image
It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
Sometimes it may seem as if progress is stalled but what history of post-war Germany shows is that strength and determination and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, my mother and uncle played… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
I was fascinated by the culture clash between England and America in the 1950s. My first memories are of being a girl… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
Of course, mankind would not have landed on the Moon in 1969, were it not for two things: conquered Nazi rocket technology… — Charles Duke Copy Share Image
The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity… — Jan Peter Balkenende Copy Share Image
Even though we were influenced by American culture and music, we like the rest of Europe have been colonized with that in… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
The Iraqis sat down for talks on how to put together a post-war government. They would have sat down yesterday, but somebody… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
We benefited from an enlightened post-war period in the United States: Our National Institutes of Health have enthusiastically and generously supported basic… — Michael Rosbash Copy Share Image
To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“His life had been spent pursuing excellence and amassing a great fortune, but now that it was ending, there was no one… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image