I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified… after a… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Once Europe's colonial empires were sent into deep decline, thanks to World War II, America became globalization's primary replicating force, integrating Asia… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
“Life is worth living and no matter what it throws at you it is important to keep your eyes on the prize… — Alistair Urquhart Copy Share Image
“At the end of World War II, the average holding period for a stock was four years. By 2000, it was eight… — Scott Patterson Copy Share Image
For Dad, service took him many unexpected places. It summoned him and his crew mates to the skies over the Pacific Ocean… — Neil Bush Copy Share Image
For 60 years, since World War II, we have been trying to create a rules-based system, a global economic system. We understand… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“Having been born in 1939 and come to consciousness during World War II, I knew that established orders could vanish overnight. Change… — Margaret Atwood 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
“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
“Towards the end of the Second World War, when I was sixteen years old, I was taken out of school and forced… — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that World War II was experienced very much as a continuity in that sense. Most of World War… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Dante was standing near the Ponte Vecchio, a bridge that crosses the Arno River in Florence. It was just before 1300… Dante… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I… — Richard Brautigan 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
We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
There are historic examples where a soft domination of certain states worked well. For instance the US, who dominated the Western alliance… — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
“Though he didn’t yet know it, Lee was about to be thrust into an unlikely battle involving the alpine castle whose icon… — Stephen Harding Copy Share Image
World War II put feminism on hold for a long time; the men went away to fight, a lot of women in… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Americans will forever be proud of the brave men and women of our armed forces who served in World War II, and… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Beginning in the late 1940s, the current of people fleeing from farm to town and city swelled into a flood—one of the… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
World War II was a historical event, but also a movie genre, and 'Fury' occasionally prints the legend. The rest of it… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we… — Ken Mehlman 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
“The Greatest Generation gets too much credit. Those World War II guys, if they had all the shit we have today, they'd… — Louis C.K Copy Share Image
When it comes to his sons, it would be easy to think that the macho Duke of Edinburgh has most in common… — Ingrid Seward Copy Share Image
A national government using New Deal programs and the massive defense spending beginning with World War II and continuing through the Cold… — Robert Dallek 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
No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam,… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963,… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
“That name was a sadistic play on the Underground Railroad that smuggled American slaves north. The old Nazis set up their own… — John Pearce 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
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
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
“Take a Somalian toddler. She has a 20% probability of dying before reaching the age of five. Now compare: American frontline soldiers… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Putin has positioned himself as the leader of an authoritarian, xenophobic international movement that wants to expel immigrants, break up the European… — Hillary Rodham Clinton 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
