“The nuclear weapons on board just one of our Trident submarines contain eight times the firepower expended in all of World War… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
There's an amazing movie, I think the best war movie ever made: it's called 'Come and See.' Soviet film. Made in the… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime. — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
Military action is, of course, sometimes necessary to maintain peace. Kosovo and World War II are good examples. — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
“The person with the bleeding finger doesn't hurt less for the person next to him with the bleeding arm.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Zhukov was the most successful commander of World War II, who fell from grace under Khrushchev, but never lost his place in… — Georgy Zhukov Copy Share Image
My dad was a member of the Greatest Generation that achieved victory in World War II. This was the generation that saved… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The Kosovars were granted autonomy at the end of World War II, but then aspiring president Milosevic had the autonomy revoked in… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
In reality, at the end of World War II, America imposed democracy at the point of a bayonet on Japan and Germany,… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
When I graduated from school, World War II was still going on. At the time, my eldest sister, Nancy, was working in… — Polly Allen Mellen Copy Share Image
After World War II, defending America in the modern world required new intelligence agencies, the unification of the armed services under a… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in… — George Wald Copy Share Image
“Shina is the Japanese appellation for China most commonly used during the first half of the twentieth century. After World War II… — Stefan Tanaka Copy Share Image
To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea,… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
“Under the influence of politicians, masses of people tend to ascribe the responsibility for wars to those who wield power at any… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Patton’s personality was immense, but his battlefield achievements matched it. ‘I want you men to remember that no bastard ever won a… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
I want to take my American friends back to the end of World War II, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
“The sepia tone of November has become blood-soaked with paper poppies festooning the lapels of our politicians, newsreaders and business leaders …… — Harry Leslie Smith Copy Share Image
“The inventor of GDP cautioned against including in its calculation expenditure for the military, advertising, and the financial sector,33 but his advice… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Welch became more confident that the press was reporting his words more accurately, but that worked against him because his discourses on… — Edward H. Miller Copy Share Image
“Soon after World War II, a tired-looking woman entered a store and asked the owner for enough food to make a Christmas… — RBC Ministries Copy Share Image
“Before the invention of the GDP, economists were rarely quoted by the press, but in the years after World War II they… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
As the only country which was bombed during World War II with nuclear weapons, Japan should be advocating that we should avoid… — Antonio Inoki Copy Share Image
“In war, the damage you inflict on the enemy might be immediately apparent. The damage you inflict on yourself in doing so… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
But I'm a daughter of the American revolution, my grandpa fought in World War II, I have lots of family members who… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men who were being called… — J. Anthony Lukas Copy Share Image
When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain… — Eisaku Sato Copy Share Image
That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The Atlantic conference in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland is a dramatic moment in World War II history because for the first… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II,… — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
I started photographing people on the street during World War II. I used a little box Brownie. Nothing too expensive. — Bill Cunningham Copy Share Image
Before World War II in Canada, you were nobody until you went to England. Then, after that it was you're nobody until… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
My grandpa was a World War II paratrooper, my uncle a Vietnam Purple Heart recipient, my cousins both Marine Corps officers. I… — Tomi Lahren Copy Share Image
For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work. — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
"Red Dawn" was a movie made in 1984 I think about World War III. If you have not seen it and plan… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
