Dresden? There is not such a place any longer." "I want to point out, that besides Essen, we never actually considered any… — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
What is the great fear of the United States? That an Eastern power will build a navy to challenge us. How do… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
After World War II, American leaders were, in Dean Acheson's words, 'present at the creation' of a global order. Now at the… — John J. Sweeney Copy Share Image
I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I remember I wanted to put so much makeup on - it was just a natural thing… — Natalia Vodianova Copy Share Image
Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The effect of AIDS was like a war in a minute country. Like, in World War I, a whole generation of Englishmen… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Some societies are also more optimistic than others: the U.S. and Australia are my two picks Tell a European you think there’s… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
I actually thought that the idea of doing a World War II movie in the guise of a spaghetti western would just… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation… — Lee Kuan Yew 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
Men didn't like to empty bedpans, so we made women nurses. Then men didn't like to do the administrative stuff, so women… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
We really have to work hard to remind people even though this is far away, that's it's probably the most generous thing… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called 'Why We Fight' that explored America's reasons for entering the… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World… — Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr Copy Share Image
We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
So if we announce we're going to have a no-fly zone, and others have said this. Hillary Clinton is also for it.… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I think war and armed conflict is always the last of all the options you have on the table. I think you… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Declarations of war have never been a constitutional requirement for military action abroad. The United States has used force abroad more than… — John Yoo 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
World War Z was a great zombie film because those were zombie performances. It wasn't just a bunch of people walking around… — Tom Savini Copy Share Image
Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I hate the word "method acting." It's just so silly. You hear people going, "Yeah I'm a method actor." I'm like, "So… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What happened in World War II was what happened in war generally, and that was whatever the initiating cause, and however clear… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than in Great Britain. Here it has been ingeniously christened… — Harry Elmer Barnes Copy Share Image
David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
It was Harry Patch, who was the last living World War I veteran; and by veteran I mean someone who actually fought… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
World War Two was a world war in space. It spread from Europe to Japan, to the Soviet Union, etc. World War… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the reason, whether it was that Hitler thought he might get away with what he had got without fighting… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
In America, we then made a commitment, particularly after World War II with the GI Bill, to massively expand our commitment to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There has never been a century that has not had a systemic war - a systemic war, meaning when the entire system… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
