If the Marines today are doing exactly the same thing their dads did in Vietnam and their granddads did in Korea and… — John F. Kelly Copy Share Image
“At the start of World War I, the Ottoman Empire was often described as a dwindling power, mired by administrative corruption, using… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Seventeen million people around the world lost their lives in the first world war, countless suffered and were marred for life. — Frank-Walter Steinmeier Copy Share Image
As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recommended to receive the… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
It seems to me that after the second world war, Beckett finally realized he had something to write about. — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
In the United States, after World War II, it took about two decades for the message to slowly seep in that inflation… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now have someone… — Horst Koehler Copy Share Image
My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
As [John] Tolkien himself said, the story [Lord of the Ring ] is not allegorical. He said so when people tried to… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As president, I will ramp up enforcement of trade rules by appointing a new chief trade prosecutor and tripling the number of… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Mehmet Ertegun died in 1944. President Roosevelt sent his body back to Turkey on the U.S.S. Missouri. Mehmet Ertegun and President Roosevelt… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
During World War II, the Nazis put their victims into gas chambers and then incinerated them in ovens. While the Nazis took… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
Every honor is appropriate for the courageous Americans who made the supreme sacrifice for our Nation at Pearl Harbor and in the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In 1940, President Roosevelt called on American industry to become the 'great arsenal of democracy.' Automotive manufacturers in Michigan responded and converted… — Sander Levin Copy Share Image
“In 1929 the leadership replaced institutions for long-term prisoners with work camps, designed to extract minerals in Siberia and other remote areas… — David Priestland Copy Share Image
“But there was a more recent author and public figure whose work spoke to the core of a new set of issues… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
“The Antropocene is usually said to have begun with the industrial revolution, or perhaps even later, with the explosive growth in population… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“A skeptic of all sentimentality, she has a witty, rueful voice that gives a deadpan appraisal of the past and present. We… — Ron Charles Copy Share Image
There is a radical and unprecedented shift [in war] that is part of the general transformation of civilization. First, understand that the… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
The cry of "Make America Great Again" reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of… — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
Although humans have existed on this planet for perhaps 2 million years, the rapid climb to modern civilization within the last 200… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War. — Douglas Hurd Copy Share Image
Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
“Yemen was, in the years prior to World War I, the ‘Vietnam’ of the Ottoman Empire, but not that of Egypt. In… — Fred Halliday Copy Share Image
I can only tell you this and I used to speak about it all the time, we have a Navy that hasn't… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now. — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
I was born in Norwich, which I still regard as the most beautiful city in the world, despite the attempts by the… — Jane Hawking Copy Share Image
Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a… — George Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are Jews who were born in Poland before World War II and survived the Holocaust, who think Poland and the Poles… — Andrzej Duda Copy Share Image
“After Spain, World War II was simple. I wasn't even tempted to pick up a gun to fight for General Motors, U.S.… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
I have an uncle who was heavily involved in World War 2, so over the years, I've talked to him many times. — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
“Consider telling those you teach that no matter how it feels to the new knitter, a dropped stitch has never actually caused… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
Since World War II, inflation - the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services - has been the bane… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
The butterflies. They aren't normal. When I'm around you, it's like World War III in my stomach. Where in the world did… — Leslie Copy Share Image
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