See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty,… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
I feel like I came from a generation where... We didn't have Vietnam. We didn't have World War II. Nothing cultural was… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
In reality, at the end of World War II, America imposed democracy at the point of a bayonet on Japan and Germany,… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
When I graduated from school, World War II was still going on. At the time, my eldest sister, Nancy, was working in… — Polly Allen Mellen Copy Share Image
Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
My dad was a member of the Greatest Generation that achieved victory in World War II. This was the generation that saved… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child-is in action, and will be… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A lot of my books have been that way. My World War II thriller about Sarin gas [Black Cross] was published two… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody.… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Since September 11, it seems to me that never in our lifetime, except possibly in the early stages of World War II,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I was a violent, self-destructive teenager, who was adopted right at the end of World War II. I was lied to and… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
In the First World War, people would be receiving letters from loved ones who had been dead for weeks, and they would… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If in the modern world wars have unfortunately to be fought (and they do, it seems) then they must be stopped at… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
While the Second World War brought about untold misery and suffering, it was also a time when the world witnessed extraordinary bravery.… — Sam Kutesa Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create… — David Icke Copy Share Image
I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when… — Paul Feyerabend 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
Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
The rise of the anti-hero can be traced to a litany of social reasons. Post World War I, for instance, saw the… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
I am encyclopaedic on World War II. My dad took me to D-Day beaches when I was a kid. I was there… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
World War II is smothered in sentimentality and nostalgia. What's interesting about Vietnam is that sentimentality is just not there, so you're… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people… — Parker Stevenson Copy Share Image
I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
The Japanese couldn't have been all bad during World War II. Look at all the movies Hollywood was able to make on… — Pat Morita Copy Share Image
To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea,… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
This system, built on free markets, free trade and free peoples and American protection, that's what got us from the end of… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Fox hunting, there's big fox hunting thing, there's arguments in Britain about fox hunting. And they go around. They obviously hunt foxes… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
It is doubtful if a more extensive anthology of errors (William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) concerning the personality… — Harry Elmer Barnes Copy Share Image
The thing about World War II is that everyone knows about the concentration camps in Europe - in Nazi Germany and Poland… — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of 'War Of The Worlds,' 'Them,' and 'Invasion of… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed: an… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
After World War II, it seemed that humanity understood something, and nothing like that would happen again. Humanity has understood nothing. Religious,… — Irena Sendler Copy Share Image
My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
![“Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exempt[ion]...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.” quote by Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/844/thomas-sowell-247_battle_benedict-arnold-was-a-war-hero-wounded-i_1784524.jpg)
![“A lot of my books have been that way. My World War II thriller about Sarin gas [Black Cross] was published two months before the Sarin attack in the Japanese subway. There are very weird coincidences out there. And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write, because of my…” quote by Greg Iles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d19/greg-iles-4609_black_a-lot-of-my-books-have-been-that-way-my_1454133.jpg)
![“World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy to get securely out of this decline. This time, the war [in Iraq] is bad for the economy in both the short and long run. We could have spent trillions in research or education…” quote by Joseph Stiglitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/860/joseph-stiglitz-1351_america_world-war-ii-was-really-unusual-because_156000.jpg)
