“Now we will live!” This is what the hungry little boy liked to say, as he toddled along the quiet roadside, or… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Between the postwar fifties - domesticity, people happy to be alive after the Second World War, wanting to build a home, make… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
I read all the books I could find about manners, and the extraordinary thing was, in all books up to the end… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“Sir Winston Churchill was born into the respected family of the Dukes of Marlborough. His mother Jeanette, was an attractive American-born British… — Captain Hank Bracker Copy Share Image
“Exploration! Exploring the past! We students in the camps seminar considered ourselves radical explorers. We tore open the windows and let in… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
I think I governed effectively. I don't have any doubts about that. I had the benefit, when I was in office, of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“The challenge to which these two groups responded was the interdependence of human kind, North and South, Rich and Pool, Industrialised and… — Prince Charles HRH the Prince of Wales Copy Share Image
In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had… — Rob Walton Copy Share Image
“During the Second World War, China, briefly united under Chiang Kai-shek, was split into pieces controlled by the Kuomintang, the Japanese, the… — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. — Dwight D. Eisenhower 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
I arrived in San Francisco in January 1951. After the Second World War, the population was so uprooted. Soldiers came back home… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“The monstrous effects on Korean civilians of the methods of warfare adopted by the United Nations — the blanket fire bombing of… — Reg Whitaker Copy Share Image
In 1945, when the Second World War technically ends in Poland, the incoming Soviet army liberates some groups of people but begins… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
The fact is that Britain is the most warlike nation on earth. In the history of armed combat, we are the only… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
After the baby boom of the second world war 40% of the population were under 25, and it was London that realised… — Dawn O'Porter 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 U.S. is not a claimant state in the South China Sea or in the China-Japan dispute over the Senkaku Islands. But,… — Lee Hsien Loong Copy Share Image
At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls.… — Nina Bawden 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
Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill;… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Democratic governments are not delivering on their promises, which is partly due to the fact that governments are less powerful than they… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create… — David Icke Copy Share Image
