The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the… — Homer Bone Copy Share Image
War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in… — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
It would have been easier to fight alone with inadequate forces than to have to accept...responsibility for our ally's lack of fighting… — Albert Kesselring Copy Share Image
No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima. — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity.… — Thomas Keating 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
From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the… — John Hoeven Copy Share Image
The Second World War had a precipitating effect in that it discredited the empires, as well as bankrupting them. Not only could… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I had been a guerrilla leader in World War II. And I used to say that the way to fight the guerrilla… — Roger Hilsman Copy Share Image
They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today! — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Just as the people who lived through the Second World War thought different things on different days, I think everybody who goes… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As you look back in history, we [the United States] have done wonderful things, the Marshal Plan is the most obvious. After… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
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