My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon. — Frank Carson Copy Share Image
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
For a time, the Flying Tigers provided the only victories against the Japanese anywhere in the Far East... This handful of men… — Duane P. Schultz Copy Share Image
The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war. — Sven-Goran Eriksson Copy Share Image
I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs.… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
When you say that after World War I there was a pandemic that killed more people than the war itself, most will… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
It is the women of Europe who pay the price while war rages, and it will be the women who will pay… — Kate Richards O'Hare Copy Share Image
As you look back in history, we [the United States] have done wonderful things, the Marshal Plan is the most obvious. After… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
Tolkien was, I believe, writing about his experience in the First and Second World Wars, where he would have spent a lot… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world, it is right in the midst of the major energy reserves in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The US tactical nuclear weapons are in Europe, let us not forget this. Does it mean that the US has occupied Germany… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
After the Second World War, facilitating the establishment of the UN and aiding the reconstruction of Europe, the United States was widely… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
On healthcare we are the prisoner of our past. The way we got to develop any kind of medical insurance program was… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned… — Nicholas Metropolis Copy Share Image
Trump will have to take up juggling if he goes ahead and scraps the agreement with Iran and at the same time,… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of… — Aleksander Kwasniewski Copy Share Image
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The Chinese soldier was tough, brave, and experienced. After all he had been fighting on his own without help for years. He… — William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim Copy Share Image
But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of… — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
In World War II all these countries were completely against each other, complete opposite. Now we're getting them all together, through the… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two… — Celine Buckens Copy Share Image
There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Then down came the lid--the day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo. World-politics stepped in, and a war was started which has… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the… — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The United States has used force abroad more than 130 times, but has only declared war five times - the War of… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that… — Hideki Tojo Copy Share Image
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in… — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
![“[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the cold, and finally unhypocritical fact that the most important thing on earth to men today is money.” quote by Janet Flanner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ec0/janet-flanner-23939_cold_on-world-war-ii-the-war-which-destroyed_2060135.jpg)
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