As a result of the cold, the machine-guns were no longer able to fire...the result of all this was a panic...The battle… — Heinz Guderian 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
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me… — Howard K. Smith Copy Share Image
When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned… — Howard Fineman Copy Share Image
We have an Army that hasn't been in this position since World War II, in terms of levels and in terms of… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
NATO was formed post-World War II. We're a little bit more than a half-century old. Do we want NATO to go on… — Michael T. Flynn Copy Share Image
Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world, it is right in the midst of the major energy reserves in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Tolkien was, I believe, writing about his experience in the First and Second World Wars, where he would have spent a lot… — Richard Armitage 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
The US tactical nuclear weapons are in Europe, let us not forget this. Does it mean that the US has occupied Germany… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
It is the women of Europe who pay the price while war rages, and it will be the women who will pay… — Kate Richards O'Hare Copy Share Image
There was a time, right up until the end of the Second World War and beyond, when white people in Europe thought… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II. — David Rolf Copy Share Image
I don't know what weapons will be used in the Third World War. But I can tell you what they'll use in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But let there be no misunderstanding. The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World… — Jim Bunning Copy Share Image
Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
I have said and I repeat, at the risk of being sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote… — Eisaku Sato Copy Share Image
As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been. — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian| warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
Zhukov was the most successful commander of World War II, who fell from grace under Khrushchev, but never lost his place in… — Georgy Zhukov Copy Share Image
In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War. — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime. — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image