My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The assault on Malta will cost us many casualties...but...I consider it absolutely essential for the future development of the war. If we… — Ugo Cavallero Copy Share Image
I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in… — Bryant Gumbel Copy Share Image
What we went to World War II for, at least in my mind, was not getting taken care of. It was supposed… — Al Feldstein Copy Share Image
For instance, the Persian Gulf War was a miniature world war. It took place in a small geographical area. In this sense… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What happened in World War II was what happened in war generally, and that was whatever the initiating cause, and however clear… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I hate the word "method acting." It's just so silly. You hear people going, "Yeah I'm a method actor." I'm like, "So… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
The Second World War had a precipitating effect in that it discredited the empires, as well as bankrupting them. Not only could… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
World War Z was a great zombie film because those were zombie performances. It wasn't just a bunch of people walking around… — Tom Savini Copy Share Image
I think war and armed conflict is always the last of all the options you have on the table. I think you… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
So if we announce we're going to have a no-fly zone, and others have said this. Hillary Clinton is also for it.… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
I consider Ronald Reagan one of the greatest U.S. presidents since the World War II because of his staunch resistance to Communism… — Yelena Bonner Copy Share Image
While American men are fighting to rid the old world of autocracy let American women set to and rid the new world… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
When the Second World War finished, I was 23 and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
Soldiers of the Reich! This day, you are to take part in an offensive of such importance that the whole future of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union. — Frank Knox Copy Share Image
My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every… — William Westmoreland Copy Share Image
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general. — George Crumb Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast? Example: What… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in… — George Andrew Olah Copy Share Image
In World War II, the government went to the private sector. The government asked the private sector for help in doing things… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh /… — Janice Mirikitani Copy Share Image
How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the… — Holland Smith Copy Share Image
The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image