“The Second World War, when it came in 1939, was unquestionably the outcome of the First, and in large measure its continuation.… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Germany has spent the decades since World War II in national penance for Nazi crimes. America spent the decades after the Civil… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
America and the world have been great beneficiaries of the forward presence of the United States Navy around the globe since the… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“You don’t get it, babe,” he said, still looking at the sky. “World War III already started.” She propped herself up on… — Slava Pilotoff Copy Share Image
“Putin’s invasion of Ukraine isn’t a staring contest. It’s a land grab, the first of this scale since World War II. But… — Katy Tur Copy Share Image
After World War II, a lot of people moved to the cities for work and abandoned the old vineyards. Then in the… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
It may come as a surprise but I also really started to get into history while I was at school. I found… — Rory McIlroy Copy Share Image
“It is my fault, and the fault of everyone of my generation. I wonder what the future generations will say about us.… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“(What Jim had seen tallied with studies conducted after the Second World War by the military historian General S.L.A. Marshall. He interviewed… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“Compared to many other prominent conservatives, Nisbet was more consistent in his condemnation of a unitary, powerful, and centralized state. Specifically, he… — George Hawley Copy Share Image
“Most dramatically, the Bridge served as an agonizing or exhilarating psychological symbol for the more than 1.2 million servicemen and women who… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
“During World War II, the U.S. military was shipping so much meat overseas to feed troops and allies that a domestic shortage… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Watching the Dallas Cowboys perform, it is not difficult to believe that coach Tom Landry flew fourengines bombers during World War II.… — Len Morgan Copy Share Image
Western Civilization has been in a state of decline since the Edwardian age, say 1910. That was the height of Greco-Roman European… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“Some writings spotted U.S. history said that the CIA agents who were watching the Communists, in the period after the Second World… — Mohamed Addakhakhny Copy Share Image
And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity.… — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed,… — Harald zur Hausen Copy Share Image
By my count, of the more than 600 English-language World War II movies made since 1940, only four have even acknowledged the… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
“In April 1967, Johnson had dispatched General Creighton Abrams to Vietnam as Westy’s deputy. Abrams, a famous tank commander in World War… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with… — Julie Salamon Copy Share Image
Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
During the Second World War, nobody built any concert halls or theaters. After the war, Lincoln Center was a very brave project… — Hugh Hardy Copy Share Image
The ICRC did not see Nazi Germany for what it was. Instead, the organization maintained the illusion that the Third Reich was… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier… — Walter Kohn Copy Share Image
The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain… — Jan Peter Balkenende Copy Share Image
I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
My grandmother, Dorothy Walker Bush, worked long, hard hours for the Red Cross during World War II because it was the right… — Neil Bush Copy Share Image
After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The First World War was a war devoid of any virtue. It arose from the quagmire of European tribalism: a complex interplay… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
It is so important for European countries, post-Second World War, to prove that they can be successful multiethnic and multiracial democracies. I… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Like other conflict-affected regions, Africa continues to see religious, ethnic, and politically motivated conflicts. Extremist violence is now entrenched in several parts… — Tedros Adhanom Copy Share Image
Remember that the NFL was cultivated into prominence by Pete Rozelle, a pro-war conservative. In the 1960s, Rozelle hired a World War… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
None these organizations [terrorists] could continue operating without the narcotics networks, human-trafficking and oil smuggling. Addressing it requires a truly creative global… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had… — Friedrich St. Florian Copy Share Image
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