Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on… — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
It’s no more dangerous to society than a radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I realize it is normal to argue. I almost missed World War II watching my parents fight. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures. — Clement Attlee Copy Share Image
If we were building our navy, rather than reducing our navy to pre-World War I levels, China would not be thinking about… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
The American Revolution was a small part of a major world war going on between France and England, so the French intervened… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Most people experience history as one damn fact after another in high school. But if you can wonder, "Wow, what if the… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
I collect old first and second World War artifacts and things. I'm a little secret history nerd. I've been lucky enough to… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell.… — Joseph Stilwell Copy Share Image
I read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure. It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Developments since the rise of National Socialism make it probable that the continent will be freed from its Jewish destroyers of people… — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
I intend 'Dämmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
I read somewhere that tongue-kissing was coined as an insult to the French reputation of sexual promiscuity. Apparently, American soldiers returned home… — Alexia Landeau Copy Share Image
I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity,… — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
For a long time, way back in the ’30s and ’40s, there were fabulous female roles. Bette Davis and all those people… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
The first task of the Federal Reserve system would be to finance the World War. The European nations were already bankrupt, because… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
Actually, the phrase "national security" is barely used until the 1930s. And there's a reason. By then, the United States was beginning… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In every major war we have fought in the 19th and 20th centuries. Americans have been asked to pay higher taxes -… — Robert Hormats Copy Share Image
The reason I called the president Donald Trump a disrupter is that he came into office 70 years after World War II,… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
When I was on an American show in 2015, I tried to talk about the threat Vladimir Putin posed to the free… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
World War II vets in general didn't talk about their experiences. They believed there was something better and that they were going… — Michele Norris Copy Share Image
I'm sort of optimistic about what we could do, but I'm very pessimistic about what we will do. I can't tell you… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
