If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
“I believe that there are four institutions in American history that have shaped our approach to race and justice but remain poorly… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II. After all, where else in… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“When at last we arrived in Mannheim, I found that my apartment had been rented to a family whose young son was… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
“Between 1931 and 1946, Pan American Airways had 28 flying boats known as “Clippers,” These four radial engine aircraft were S-40’s and… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image
Following World War II, the U.S. was the architect of the UN system, and the world financial system, and the Human Rights… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“On June 23, 1942, there was a group of French Jews in a German prison, on Polish soil. The first person I… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
European peace movement felt that the deployment of these missiles on European soil, on German soil would be a very great danger… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
“It was the missionaries who became the brave storm troopers of Christianity, slashing their way through jungles, going where no one had… — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
“most Americans have never recognized as “terrorist” in precisely the same sense the firestorms caused deliberately by U.S. firebombing of Tokyo or… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“But after World War II, the brothers realized they were running hard just to stay in one place. They weren’t building volume… — Ray Kroc Copy Share Image
“Tonight, no one will rage and cry: "My Kingdom for a horse!" No ghost will come to haunt the battlements of a… — Michel Tremblay Copy Share Image
“The casting of the brash United States Army Air Force officer Colonel Robert E. Hogan and the pompous German Luftwaffe officer Colonel… — Carol M. Ford Copy Share Image
“It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Pulp devotees did not invent the word fan (derived from the Latin fanaticus , "possessed by divine madness") but they established the… — Steve Silberman Copy Share Image
“History lesson, folks: The tax system we have today—the one we've come to know and love—began ninety-four years ago as a (drum… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image