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
I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too… — Erich Fromm 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
What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
When the Second World War came to an end in Europe, my uncle Sir Alexander Korda was the first filmmaker to reopen… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
The post-Second World War simple system of social democracy and organized labour has fragmented massively, but just because people aren't organized in… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
America's exceptional nature confers upon us responsibilities. We are not exceptional because we say so; we are exceptional because, over and over,… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Just as the people who lived through the Second World War thought different things on different days, I think everybody who goes… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
President Bush paid homage Wednesday to World War II veterans of Normandy at the D-Day Memorial. Later that night, his twin daughters… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
Yugoslavia served as a reminder that the lessons of World War Two were only partially learned. There's a great line someone wrote… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The use of torture on suspected terrorists after Sept. 11 has already earned a place in American history's hall of shame, alongside… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Warsaw's historic heart was deliberately almost entirely destroyed towards the end of the Second World War by the German occupying troops. After… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
South Korea at the end of the Second World War had a very low level of literacy. But suddenly, like in Japan,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“First, the very idea that there should be any serious kind of health insurance for Americans (beyond tiny elites) simply did not… — Gar Alperovitz Copy Share Image
“Indeed, future historians may well attribute our recent successes—toppling the two worst regimes in the Middle East, presiding over the birth of… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“As the years go by and I grow older, I feel compelled to record my experiences in wartime Germany. It is important… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
What we accomplished during World War Two is just amazing. We turned our country upside down. African Americans were demanding to be… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
“Queen Lily Ruckler, negotiations have ceased with the Commoner leaders of the world. The time for attempting peace is over. There is… — scarlett Dawn Copy Share Image
“To the generations of Americans raised since World War 2, the identities of criminals such as Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Baby Face… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the… — Daniel Yergin 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
In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past. — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench warfare, German commanders were shaping a… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“When I got home from the Second World War, mu Uncle Dan clapped me on the back, and he said, "You're a… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
If 'Sajjan Singh Rangroot' showed seriousness through the First World War, 'Carry On Jatta 2' had a great dose of comedy. — Varun Sharma 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
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
“Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature… — William Golding Copy Share Image
After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan,… — C. L. R. James 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
More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence… — David Frum Copy Share Image