“At the end of World War II, American military policy, digesting the Japanese lessons in China, was to control air and sea… — T.R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody.… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“The "herrenvolk" [master race] are all around you, threading their way on their bicycles between the piles of rubble or rushing off… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I urge all Connecticut residents to reflect on the sacrifices made by the Greatest Generation during World War II. In the aftermath… — Ned Lamont Copy Share Image
Long before there was discrimination against blacks, there was discrimination against white southerners. When large numbers of these country people moved north… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my grandfather had bought just before World War II… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
Now, 'high-intensity conflict' is a fancy word for saying tanks on tanks, aircraft shooting each other out of the sky, a great… — Mark Esper Copy Share Image
Acting on the theory that sometimes luck is better than work, I randomly called several people named Dattilo in Kentucky. All were… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
China is ruthlessly pragmatic. It supports North Korea for its own selfish interests. And I believe that China no longer considers us… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
“In Paris, I found myself surrounded by Germans; they were all over the place. They played music, and people would go and… — Pearl Witherington Cornioley 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
“Eighty years ago on July 2, 1937 Amelia Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, disappeared while… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
It's very clear that there are greater threats to these ships since, arguably, World War II. There are new technologies that can… — P. W. Singer 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
“From the experience of state militias during the American Revolution, to the Spanish-American War; from the legendary Merrill’s Marauders, the highly skilled… — Tom Mangold Copy Share Image
“We live in hope that the good we do here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. We also hope to win… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
Men's magazines in the period immediately after World War II were almost all outdoor-oriented. They were connected to some extent in the… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia has said that if the US-led coalition against Daesh is prepared to engage in ground operations, we will be prepared… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
After World War II the Republicans - the Wall Street crowd - were very worried about a depression coming back. They hated… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
The truth is that people - many people are concerned about this, but this is not the first time in America this… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Kennedy was trying to keep us out of war. I was trying to help him keep us out of war. And General… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
I will be remembered when I'm in heaven. People won't remember my name, but they will know the photographer who did that… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
“As he walked...he picked up the holodreams of the suits... _I believe_. A yellow-suited man was flying one World War II plane… — Misha Copy Share Image
The two sides that fought in World War I lived in the same century but in different places. The same is true… — Haim Harari Copy Share Image
History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed: an… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
After World War II, it seemed that humanity understood something, and nothing like that would happen again. Humanity has understood nothing. Religious,… — Irena Sendler Copy Share Image
“The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle [World War II], while living on food which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The thing about World War II is that everyone knows about the concentration camps in Europe - in Nazi Germany and Poland… — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
We were the daughters of the post-World War II American dream, the daughters of those idealized fifties sitcom families in which father… — Anne Taylor Fleming Copy Share Image
“Then again, it didn’t take me long in the world of corporate law to realize that truth is an afterthought in court.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“He wants to believe that Shakespeare wrote all those books, that Lincoln fought the Civil War to free the slaves and the… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“I was never the mythic lucky-born after all, the post-war harbinger of hope, peace and progress. That hope and faith grew in… — Kaimana Wolff Copy Share Image
My father Ted fought in North Africa, Italy, and Germany during World War II. My grandfather survived the horrors of the trenches… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“President Eisenhower was fed up with the interservice rivalries. Having commanded the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
![“The "herrenvolk" [master race] are all around you, threading their way on their bicycles between the piles of rubble or rushing off with jugs and buckets to meet the water cart. It is queer to think that these are the people who once ruled Europe, from the Channel to the Caspian Sea and might have…” quote by George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9a4/george-orwell-57_1945_the-herrenvolk-master-race-are-all-aroun_2324178.jpg)
![“The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle [World War II], while living on food which British sailors have to risk their lives to bring you, is a bourgeois illusion bred of money and security.” quote by George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7ee/george-orwell-57_life_the-idea-that-you-can-somehow-remain-alo_925003.jpg)
![“World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy to get securely out of this decline. This time, the war [in Iraq] is bad for the economy in both the short and long run. We could have spent trillions in research or education…” quote by Joseph Stiglitz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/860/joseph-stiglitz-1351_america_world-war-ii-was-really-unusual-because_156000.jpg)
