“Although there are many differences between America and post–World War I Germany, history has some economic lessons to teach us. Remember that… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
“Poultry Farm (Sonnet) First law of poultry farming: keep your livestock busy with trivial problems, so they stay ever oblivious to systemic… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“During the Allied invasion of World War II, hundreds of life-like rubber dummy paratroopers were dropped into the French countryside. These distractions… — Aaron R. Yilmaz Copy Share Image
“After World War II, the Italians made tremendous efforts to rebuild their country’s industry and economy. During the 1950s and ‘60s, with… — Marilyn Tolhurst Copy Share Image
“After World War Two, the Australian army had been re-organised into its peace-time army status. The army was primarily three battalions which… — Michael G. Kramer 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
I worry more about the marketing that's taken hold since the 70s. The Jazz era, the Swing era, those were huge. Entire… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“Romano Guardini, surveying the moral and intellectual ruin that was Europe after the Second World War, wrote that we had entered the… — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
“I used to be really into these when I was a kid,” Nine says. “Now I’m more into the real thing. You… — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
“In the City Market is the Meet Café. Followers of obsolete, unthinkable trades doodling in Etruscan, addicts of drugs not yet synthesized,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“From the experience of state militias during the American Revolution, to the Spanish-American War; from the legendary Merrill’s Marauders, the highly skilled… — Tom Mangold Copy Share Image
“That summer, Lee Harvey Oswald handed out pro-Castro literature stamped with the address 544 Camp Street, a commercial building. This was a… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
“Hundreds of political assassinations related to minority races, labor leaders and spokesmen against fascism have taken place in the U.S. since World… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
“When America stood on the threshold of World War II, Hoover continued a friendly relationship with the Nazis dominating Interpol, the Berlin-based… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
“Billy looked at the clock on the gas stove. He had an hour to kill before the saucer came. He went into… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The biggest explosion of the First World War was set off by miners from the allied forces, who dug shafts underneath German… — Jack Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Since the 1920s, the much-reduced Christian populations have tried various strategies to maintain their existence, but none shows great hopes of success.41… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Frank Fiorini, better known as Frank Sturgis, had an interesting career that started when he quit high school during his senior year… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
Hitler did not have Mussolini's revolutionary socialist background... Nevertheless, he shared the socialist hatred and contempt for the 'bourgeoisie' and 'capitalism' and… — Richard Pipes Copy Share Image
“The Second World War created the need for a new generation of female heroes. Where could these women look for role models?… — Kathryn J. Atwood Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, there was a man who gave me lessons and things. I'm very dyslexic so he used to… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
Woodrow Wilson was the president of the United States in 1920, and he was made a fool of - his wife almost… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“The last slaveholder has been dead for a very long time. The last soldier to endure Valley Forge has been dead much… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“If you don't recognize your own crimes, there's no impediment to continuing them. There's a pretty dramatic example of that right at… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“This isn't to deny that there were fierce arguments, at the time and ever since, about the causes and goals of both… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“The Korean Peninsula was kind of left over when the Second World War ended. Stalin and Truman each occupied a bit in… — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
“Corporate interests raised a nearly unified voice heralding automation as a certain and universal beneficial advancement. However, some observers saw the new… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“When the French high command had got wind of the German Schlieffen Plan prior to World War I, their reaction had been,… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“Society reaps what it sows in the way it nurtures its children, because stress sculpts the brain to exhibit several antisocial behaviors.… — Margot Sunderland Copy Share Image
“Dr. Benjamin Spock, who worked in a veterans’ hospital dealing with emotional illnesses during World War II, commented at the time that… — Ann Rule Copy Share Image
“We will never know all there is to know about Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. No single story can relate… — Wendy Lower Copy Share Image
“The country was passing through turbulent times. British Raj was on its last legs. The World War had sucked the juice out… — Manjit Sachdeva Copy Share Image
“I had the mistaken idea, based on what happened in World War I, that we would stay out of the war, and… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“Eventually Frances was credited with writing 325 scripts covering every conceivable genre. She also directed and produced half a dozen films, was… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share Image
If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
“I believe that there are four institutions in American history that have shaped our approach to race and justice but remain poorly… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“After the United States entered World War I, Southern landowners had a new means of ensuring their laborers remained on plantations—the threat… — Adrienne Berard Copy Share Image
“Lieutenant Linh said, “Thank you for this valuable information, it gives us an opportunity to take counter-measures to nullify the American attack!… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II. After all, where else in… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image