I'm a bit embarrassed about how little I know about the First World War. I didn't even know that tanks were used… — Guy Martin Copy Share Image
If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States… — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
So, I mean, what's it like being old? It's gotta be weird, right? I mean, you saw a lotta stuff go down.… — Nick Swardson Copy Share Image
Being born in '31 was during the Depression and in my earlier youth World War II took place - so it was… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
I believe in sun even if it doesn't shine ¦. I believe in love even if I dont feel it ¦. And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
A lot of my books have been that way. My World War II thriller about Sarin gas [Black Cross] was published two… — Greg Iles 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
There's a tendency to locate the cliche of the 'strong woman' exclusively in the present day, as if those many women who… — David Hepworth 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
“The treatment accorded the Negro during the Second World War marks, for me, a turning point in the Negro’s relation to America.… — James Baldwin 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
I was raised in California during the Second World War and into the '50s and everything was fine, everything was great. The… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“[Israel's military occupation is] in gross violation of international law and has been from the outset. And that much, at least, is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“There has been much controversy about the numbers of those imprisoned and killed at various times in the Stalin years, but the… — Archie Brown 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
“Caine, Philip D. Aircraft Down! Evading Capture in WWII Europe. Virginia: Potomac Books, 1997. Champlain, Héléne de. The Secret War of Helene… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“Sir Winston Churchill was born into the respected family of the Dukes of Marlborough. His mother Jeanette, was an attractive American-born British… — Captain Hank Bracker Copy Share Image
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power. — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When the Second World War started, I was only five but I still remember... Being a witness... I wanted people to remember… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature.… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird. — Wagner Moura Copy Share Image
World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
I hope my journals relating to World War II will help clarify issues of the past and thereby contribute to understanding the… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
My family moved from Rangoon to Rawalpindi during World War II. My father was born in Lahore in 1946. Those were difficult times. — Rasika Dugal Copy Share Image
If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I only take vitamin B complex. Before World War II, I used to take ionized yeast, because in the pre-war era we… — John Gokongwei Copy Share Image
When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I… — Oscar Levant Copy Share Image
“Moreover, it was social democracy and the welfare state that bound the professional and commercial middle classes to liberal institutions in the… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me… — Howard K. Smith Copy Share Image
I think that the first World War put an end the kind of music that Mahler, Bruckner and Richard Strauss were writing.… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image