In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
“During the Second World War, the British Broadcasting Corporation prefaced some radio broadcasts with the beginning of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony — BAH,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The way that Trump spoke about the outside world was the most aggressive, most hyper-nationalist, and in some ways most hostile of… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Fifty years would seem to be time enough to prepare a definitive history of the Second World War. In an age of… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War,… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
I'm sort of optimistic about what we could do, but I'm very pessimistic about what we will do. I can't tell you… — Paul R. Ehrlich 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
“Ironically, the memory of the women heroes of World War I was largely eclipsed by the very women they had inspired. The… — Kathryn J. Atwood Copy Share Image
I was raised in California during the Second World War and into the '50s and everything was fine, everything was great. The… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
If you look back to the anti-intervention movements, what were they? Let's take the Vietnam War - the biggest crime since the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Finally, I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
Clement Attlee, the man who led us out of the rubble of the Second World War and into a more modern, egalitarian… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
“It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
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“THE FIRST WORLD WAR was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. Unnecessary because the train of events that led to its outbreak might… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
“Indeed, future historians may well attribute our recent successes—toppling the two worst regimes in the Middle East, presiding over the birth of… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
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“With the coming of the war the situation regarding the Jews altered drastically. It is not widely known that world Jewry declared… — Richard Harwood Copy Share Image
“The fall of the protecting class walls transformed the slumbering majorities behind all parties into one great unorganized, structureless mass of furious… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Sixty-five years ago [written 2009], in a brief lull between storms in a remarkably stormy June, even by the standards of Channel… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the… — Carol Vorderman Copy Share Image
I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't… — Abbey Lincoln Copy Share Image
I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who… — Ronald Lauder 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
As I have said many times before, I was among the first people to experience the German Occupation of France during the… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Since the Second World War, the British Armed Forces have excelled at every challenge assigned to them in theatres across the globe.… — Gavin Williamson Copy Share Image
“Just as the failure of the Paris museum project freed Rodin from the restrictions of a functional door, the end of the… — Melissa Terras Copy Share Image
Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war… — Larry Hagman Copy Share Image
“The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5 trillion and claimed the lives of over 50 million people. That represents… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
Most bayonets throughout history have probably not been used because soldiers just can't do it, something holds them back... the same goes… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
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