This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is another innovation at Harvard which I think made a tremendous difference and that is the decision to try to recruit… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When I first went to jail in 1960 with seven classmates trying to use their public library against the backdrop of my… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I believe the number is 70% of the world's refugees since World War II have been taken in by the United States.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of… — Colin Ward Copy Share Image
People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It was right after Woodrow Wilson's first serious post-World War I repression, which deported thousands of people, effectively destroyed unions and independent… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
The Second World War had really devastating effects for much of Europe. It really didn't take them very long to reconstruct state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Without chemical slaughterhouses, without a systematic mass murder, the tragedy of the Jews is just one out of the numerous tragedies that… — Jurgen Graf Copy Share Image
There is no question that, in 1980, Ronald Reagan had been portrayed as a war-monger, somebody who couldn't do anything off a… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
For all the chatter that Britain has moved beyond class, recent studies have found that it determines the life chances of British… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses,… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
We salute our veterans of Pearl Harbor and World War II, whose sacrifices saved democracy during a dark hour. In their memory,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Einstein was attending a music salon in Germany before the second world war, with the violinist S. Suzuki. Two Japanese women played… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You have to decide in advance whether you're ready go to war. If you guys are ready to send a million troops… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Growing up in the shadow of Johnson Space Center and moving to Texas to welcome our last moon mission home, I wanted… — Pete Olson Copy Share Image
We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have… — Vicki Myron Copy Share Image
It is only through an abandonment of the idea that those entrusted with power have an exclusive right to decide upon war,… — Frederic C. Howe Copy Share Image
After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I read "Women Heroes of World War I" and was absolutely astonished. When we imagine women serving in the First World War,… — Kate Quinn Copy Share Image
If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we’d be one… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really… — Bjork Copy Share Image
Nobody's interests are served by what's happening in Syria today. It's a catastrophe. It's the worst human catastrophe since World War II.… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen seem to have no respect for the institutions that were created after World War… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
