People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of… — Colin Ward Copy Share Image
What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
When I first went to jail in 1960 with seven classmates trying to use their public library against the backdrop of my… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I believe the number is 70% of the world's refugees since World War II have been taken in by the United States.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It has to be an actress like Marion Cotillard [in Allied] because there are so many levels to it. It's set in… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There is another innovation at Harvard which I think made a tremendous difference and that is the decision to try to recruit… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The pioneer labor historian John Commons was not wrong when he wrote around World War One that exploiting and deepening such tensions… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
Our biggest art forms are film and television, and there hasn't been a great film about 9/11 yet, nor has there been… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You have to decide in advance whether you're ready go to war. If you guys are ready to send a million troops… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Growing up in the shadow of Johnson Space Center and moving to Texas to welcome our last moon mission home, I wanted… — Pete Olson Copy Share Image
The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Einstein was attending a music salon in Germany before the second world war, with the violinist S. Suzuki. Two Japanese women played… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For all the chatter that Britain has moved beyond class, recent studies have found that it determines the life chances of British… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
There is no question that, in 1980, Ronald Reagan had been portrayed as a war-monger, somebody who couldn't do anything off a… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
We salute our veterans of Pearl Harbor and World War II, whose sacrifices saved democracy during a dark hour. In their memory,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses,… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Without chemical slaughterhouses, without a systematic mass murder, the tragedy of the Jews is just one out of the numerous tragedies that… — Jurgen Graf Copy Share Image
The Second World War had really devastating effects for much of Europe. It really didn't take them very long to reconstruct state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be… — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it;… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, all these guys talk about how the United States became a national security state after World… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Two factors explain our success. One, MIT's renaissance after World War II as a federally supported research resource. Two, the mathematical revolution… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
A lot of times when I ask people what their apocalyptic fantasy life is like, they'll immediately say something like, "Oh, what… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II.… — Eileen Collins Copy Share Image
![“It has to be an actress like Marion Cotillard [in Allied] because there are so many levels to it. It's set in the Second World War, when lots of people were doing things that, outside of a war, you wouldn't do, like killing and dropping bombs. She's doing things that one wouldn't approve of, but…” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e5a/steven-knight-2205_actresses_it-has-to-be-an-actress-like-marion-coti_1913052.jpg)
![“We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable…” quote by Ronald Reagan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5e8/ronald-reagan-119_acceptable_we-in-america-have-learned-bitter-lesson_1332203.jpg)
![“Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.'” quote by Eileen Collins](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6cd/eileen-collins-41444_able_because-of-amelia-earhart-we-had-more-wo_1482235.jpg)
