I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two… — Celine Buckens 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
Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant 1993 dollars.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
nothing happens in August - except when something really happens in August. World War I began in August, Saddam Hussein's invasion of… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century."… — Jane Jacobs 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
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
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
France has not been able to come to terms with the fact that it's not a major power anymore. I mean even… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I felt implicated in American affairs.Outraged at the blatant lies about Iraqs involvement in al Qaeda, at the regimes arrogance and stupidity,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
We shall solve this problem, and afterwards Warsaw as the Capital and the pool of intelligentsia of that nation will be destroyed. — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
Friedrich Engels once said: "Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism." What does "regression into… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted… — P. J. O'Rourke 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
Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
If the World War [I] demonstrated anything it was that government ownership is fraught with the gravest dangers and usually leads to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is,… — Jimmy Doolittle Copy Share Image
As [John] Tolkien himself said, the story [Lord of the Ring ] is not allegorical. He said so when people tried to… — Viggo Mortensen 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
I loved World War II. I didn't want the war to end. I wanted the war to go on forever. — Russ Meyer 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
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
I can only tell you this and I used to speak about it all the time, we have a Navy that hasn't… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
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