My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. Its about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. Its… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“My father says there are more than twenty thousand turned out for the king. It seems that most men think that we… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell… — Lyn Nofziger Copy Share Image
I'm shooting a gangbanger, but as a dignified man. That's pretty much what war photography did: seeing images of soldiers in a… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To save the culture of your allies is a small thing. To cherish the culture of your enemy, to risk your life… — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share Image
We fought hard for socialism in a devastating war of independence and reunification. To build an affluent and prosperous society, we chose… — Nguyen Minh Triet Copy Share Image
Most of my life, I read what is said on IMDB. The fans on the Raw is War board make the most… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I've been there for so many crossroads in American history. My whole political life spans the birth of the environmental movement, the… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
“One of the tragic ironies of the second half of the 20th century is that when colonies in the developing world freed… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Gandhi was such an important figure to the pacifists of the '30s, and he was such an extraordinary embodiment of nonviolence, that… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“Tommy and I put on a radio play to entertain everyone while they unpacked their cookies. It was about a girl who… — Ruth Reichl Copy Share Image
“Do not call us heroes. Not if you are calling us that in order to absolve yourself of guilt over sending us… — Barbara Nickless Copy Share Image
“Guess what? The Nazis didn't lose the war after all. They won it and flourished. They took over the world and wiped… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the… — Julian Beck Copy Share Image
It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
“The Matrix has its roots in primitive arcade games,' said the voice-over, 'in early graphics programs and military experimentation with cranial jacks.'… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Star Wars introduced a new way for using the five screen speakers [in theaters]. By pushing left and right sound channels to… — Michael Rubin Copy Share Image
In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I just thought of something... If I really wanted to end my life,I should go to war. Theres a possible chance I'll… — Jazzy Copy Share Image
If God were like a Star Wars Force linking all consciousness, I supposed I could maybe believe that. But let's just say… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it's reflecting life -- toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the… — Greer Garson Copy Share Image
“The unnatural beast plummeted to the ground, vainly attempting to keep his entrails in and put out the fire that covered him.… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
So do your duty, boys, and join with prideServe your country in her suicideFind the flags so you can wave goodbyeBut just… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who… — Ronald Lauder Copy Share Image
What happens in the context of war is that, in order for you to make a child into a killer, you destroy… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent… — John Barrasso Copy Share Image
“To rule forever," continues the Chinaman, later, "it is necessary only to create, among the people one would rule, what we call...Bad… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
It was a time of madness, the sort of mad-hysteria that always presages war. There seems to be nothing left but war--when… — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible… — Karl Donitz Copy Share Image
I've had this theory for a while, but I think there needs to be a message with the end of 'Game of… — Finn Jones Copy Share Image
Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“If you aren't destroying your enemies, it's because you have been conquered and assimilated, you do not even have an idea of… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Russia is a competitor. They're a strong nation, something we need to recognize, but their economy is just a little bit bigger… — Adam Kinzinger Copy Share Image
We hear warmongering every day, every day we hear threats and attempts to scare us. [...] We don't want war and never… — Serzh Sargsyan Copy Share Image
“A war expert," said Mr. Dooley, "is a man ye niver heerd iv befure. If ye can think iv annywan whose face… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image