“Well the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final inconclusive chapter - leaving, alas, everyone the poorer,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“During the forty-five months of World War II, the United States lost just under 1 percent of its adult male population; during… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas… — Dick Durbin 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
First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson… — Dwight D. Eisenhower 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
“The irony, of course, is that not long ago, it was Trump’s own ancestors—German American immigrants—who were the demons of the day,… — Arsalan Iftikhar Copy Share Image
“For decades afterwards, I punished myself with images of Sofia standing naked in the snow, shivering, clutching a chunk of cement that… — Helen Maryles Shankman Copy Share Image
“It took just over 15 years to recover the money invested at the 1929 peak, following a crash far worse than Smith… — Jeremy J. Siegel Copy Share Image
“As a Chinese American growing up in a largely white world during the 1920s and 1930s, a sense of social marginalization marked… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“Some books about the Holocaust are more difficult to read than others. Some books about the Holocaust are nearly impossible to read.… — Carol Rittner Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, just to see what was happening, my father would drive to the airport…. Before my birth, during the “Roaring 20’s” Newark… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
“Ah, my dear friend, cheer up... After all, we have peace! And because there is peace, the occupiers can't behave so abominably… — Andrzej Szczypiorski Copy Share Image
“As we’ve gone along, I’ve pointed out that a warm childhood relationship with his mother—not maternal education—was significantly related to a man’s… — George E. Vaillant Copy Share Image
For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World… — Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr Copy Share Image
We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
“The dilemma facing Hitler in 1923 was how to carry out a coup d'etat which could only hope to succeed with the… — John Strawson Copy Share Image
Men didn't like to empty bedpans, so we made women nurses. Then men didn't like to do the administrative stuff, so women… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
If the West Point class of 1915 is called 'the class the stars fell on' for the number of World War II… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called 'Why We Fight' that explored America's reasons for entering the… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
We really have to work hard to remind people even though this is far away, that's it's probably the most generous thing… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Some societies are also more optimistic than others: the U.S. and Australia are my two picks Tell a European you think there’s… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
Every time you go to an airport and get on a plane, you are basically taking advantage of the work that was… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I feel like I came from a generation where... We didn't have Vietnam. We didn't have World War II. Nothing cultural was… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
If liberals had been in charge of the Arizona memorial, it would probably have featured an exhaustive exhibit about the internment of… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
To be sure, Kennedy did not discount the importance of words in rallying the nation to meet its foreign and domestic challenges.… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
In America, we then made a commitment, particularly after World War II with the GI Bill, to massively expand our commitment to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the reason, whether it was that Hitler thought he might get away with what he had got without fighting… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
“Only in the Soviet Union did women carry arms and engage in routine front-line combat duty on a large scale during World… — Bill Yenne Copy Share Image
In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
Since World War II, most of the conflicts in the world have been internal conflicts. The weapon of choice in those wars… — Jody Williams Copy Share Image
“In the eleven months preceding the outbreak of World War II, 211 treaties of peace were signed. Were these treaties of peace… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
