The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history. — Bob Crow Copy Share Image
Why should Americans care about the Nazi back story in World War II? If you don't have the Nazi back story in… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
[After World War II:] By now we are used to the rubble, which they clear up religiously and indefatigably. What a determination… — Lotte Lenya Copy Share Image
I started with the book 'Boardwalk Empire' and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This president and this is what the focus ought to be, it's not the differences between us, it's Barack Obama does not… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The Security Council should be seen as the executive committee of the global security system set up after World War II. Its… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified… after a… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There are historic examples where a soft domination of certain states worked well. For instance the US, who dominated the Western alliance… — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
I watched American TV shows: Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Rockford Files, Bonanza. And for many summers growing up, I worked on my… — Scott Raab Copy Share Image
For 60 years, since World War II, we have been trying to create a rules-based system, a global economic system. We understand… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
...the plan is to engineer events, real and staged, that will create enormous fear in the countdown years to 2012. This includes… — David Icke Copy Share Image
World War II put feminism on hold for a long time; the men went away to fight, a lot of women in… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
For over two centuries, each generation of Americans before us confronted and solved problems. They embraced opportunities and Americans have never had… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Today people can see and protest all the different interests that want war to happen, the people it financially benefits. The First… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
[I]f you look at United States history since World War II, you find that of the 10 presidents who preceded Barack Obama,… — Paul Krugman 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 is a radical and unprecedented shift [in war] that is part of the general transformation of civilization. First, understand that the… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of… — Edmond Taylor Copy Share Image
World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at… — David Frum Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the absence of a second front in Europe considerably relieves the position of the German Army, nor… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
When the Defense Department was established after World War II, a law said that any defense secretary with military experience must have… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
A particular type of film emerged from World War Two, with the Italian neorealist school. It was perfectly right for its time,… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Our biggest art forms are film and television, and there hasn't been a great film about 9/11 yet, nor has there been… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
The pioneer labor historian John Commons was not wrong when he wrote around World War One that exploiting and deepening such tensions… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It has to be an actress like Marion Cotillard [in Allied] because there are so many levels to it. It's set in… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
![“[After World War II:] By now we are used to the rubble, which they clear up religiously and indefatigably. What a determination to get on top again! One could admire it, if one would not be afraid that somewhere lurks another Hitler. But you can't seem to find a single Nazi in Germany! Nobody was…” quote by Lotte Lenya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/97b/lotte-lenya-59535_admire_after-world-war-ii-by-now-we-are-used-to_2919456.jpg)
![“[I]f you look at United States history since World War II, you find that of the 10 presidents who preceded Barack Obama, seven left office with a debt ratio lower than when they came in. Who were the three exceptions? Ronald Reagan and the two George Bushes.” quote by Paul Krugman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/197/paul-krugman-2255_barack_i-f-you-look-at-united-states-history-si_1148835.jpg)
![“There is a radical and unprecedented shift [in war] that is part of the general transformation of civilization. First, understand that the past 150 years of warfare are totally unprecedented in that we introduced a breathtakingly inefficient technology: guns. In the First World War, and this is…” quote by George Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/643/george-friedman-7436_ammunition_there-is-a-radical-and-unprecedented-shi_1996165.jpg)
![“The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.” quote by Simone Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/13c/simone-weil-544_bears_the-same-suffering-is-much-harder-to-bea_1340865.jpg)
![“When the Defense Department was established after World War II, a law said that any defense secretary with military experience must have been out of the military at least seven years. General [James] Mattis doesn't meet that.” quote by Steve Inskeep](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6b6/steve-inskeep-10882_defense_when-the-defense-department-was-establis_2280980.jpg)
![“We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable…” quote by Ronald Reagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5e8/ronald-reagan-119_acceptable_we-in-america-have-learned-bitter-lesson_1332203.jpg)
![“It has to be an actress like Marion Cotillard [in Allied] because there are so many levels to it. It's set in the Second World War, when lots of people were doing things that, outside of a war, you wouldn't do, like killing and dropping bombs. She's doing things that one wouldn't approve of, but…” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e5a/steven-knight-2205_actresses_it-has-to-be-an-actress-like-marion-coti_1913052.jpg)