We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
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For Dad, service took him many unexpected places. It summoned him and his crew mates to the skies over the Pacific Ocean… — Neil Bush Copy Share Image
I watched American TV shows: Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Rockford Files, Bonanza. And for many summers growing up, I worked on my… — Scott Raab Copy Share Image
For 60 years, since World War II, we have been trying to create a rules-based system, a global economic system. We understand… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“Having been born in 1939 and come to consciousness during World War II, I knew that established orders could vanish overnight. Change… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The whole idea of Captain America was borne of a time 80-something years ago. That was a time of the Second World… — Kari Skogland Copy Share Image
We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
“Antisemitism did not begin in Germany, or anywhere else, in 1918; Jews had been regarded as dangerous outsiders for centuries, and anti-Jewish… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
“After World War II the Allies refused to recognize Karl Dönitz as the president or führer, Reichspräsident, of Germany. Instead they declared… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“The imperialist found it useful to incorporate the credible and seemingly unimpeachable wisdom of science to create a racial classification to be… — R.F. Georgy Copy Share Image
“At the time, when one thought of a book on World War II Romania, it was the British author Olivia Manning’s 1960… — R.G. Waldeck Copy Share Image
There is another innovation at Harvard which I think made a tremendous difference and that is the decision to try to recruit… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“The Adoption When Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
There are historic examples where a soft domination of certain states worked well. For instance the US, who dominated the Western alliance… — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
“Though he didn’t yet know it, Lee was about to be thrust into an unlikely battle involving the alpine castle whose icon… — Stephen Harding Copy Share Image
During a World War I armistice in 1914, a match was played between British and German soldiers before the real hostilities resumed.… — Simon Jordan Copy Share Image
World War II put feminism on hold for a long time; the men went away to fight, a lot of women in… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
Bill Phillips was this nervous, chain-smoking student. He had signed up to be an engineer, he had gone away to fight in… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
Americans will forever be proud of the brave men and women of our armed forces who served in World War II, and… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“Beginning in the late 1940s, the current of people fleeing from farm to town and city swelled into a flood—one of the… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
...the plan is to engineer events, real and staged, that will create enormous fear in the countdown years to 2012. This includes… — David Icke Copy Share Image
“If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
World War II was a historical event, but also a movie genre, and 'Fury' occasionally prints the legend. The rest of it… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Some of our best and unexpected discoveries have been born out of crises - from the Second World War, for example, came… — Alok Sharma Copy Share Image
We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we… — Ken Mehlman Copy Share Image
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“Force is often used to enforce peace and an A bomb did bring world war 2 to a shuddering halt. The funniest… — Nidhie Sharma Copy Share Image
“The Greatest Generation gets too much credit. Those World War II guys, if they had all the shit we have today, they'd… — Louis C.K Copy Share Image
The NATO alliance is not just a transactional relationship, once again. That alliance serves our interests. That alliance has been critical to… — James Franklin Jeffrey Copy Share Image
The Second World War had really devastating effects for much of Europe. It really didn't take them very long to reconstruct state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When it comes to his sons, it would be easy to think that the macho Duke of Edinburgh has most in common… — Ingrid Seward Copy Share Image
The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
A national government using New Deal programs and the massive defense spending beginning with World War II and continuing through the Cold… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
The Philippines and the U.S. have had a strong relationship with each other for a very long time now. We have a… — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Copy Share Image
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