Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning. — David M. Shoup Copy Share Image
A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima. — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
The Limeys want us in even with our hastily made plans and our half-trained and half-equipped troops. — Joseph Stilwell Copy Share Image
It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years. — Ross Perot 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
Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a… — George Kennedy Copy Share Image
Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power. — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
Being born in '31 was during the Depression and in my earlier youth World War II took place - so it was… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
If you look at the Gulf War or new military technologies, they are moving towards cyberwars. Most video-technologies and technologies of simulation… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
One concern I had while I was working actively in the intelligence community - being someone who had broad access, who was… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When Dalton Trumbo and his friends joined the Communist Party it was 1943, and Russia was our ally in World War II.… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
The Russians and the Chinese have been making enormous investments in the military. We have the smallest Navy since 1916. We have… — Mike Pence 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
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot… — Spencer Bachus Copy Share Image
My dad and mom were more like World War II-era parents, even though it was the 1960s, because they were both born… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Ross believed in past lives. Moreover, he believed that the person you fell in love with in each life was the same… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems I found with Irish politics and the economic thing was after the war, after World War II,… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
The Iranian issue I don't think has much to do with nuclear weapons frankly. Nobody is saying Iran should have nuclear weapons… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Growing up after the Second World War in a Jewish family, I really understand that, and have members of my family who… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
What we accomplished during World War Two is just amazing. We turned our country upside down. African Americans were demanding to be… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem.… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
South Korea at the end of the Second World War had a very low level of literacy. But suddenly, like in Japan,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The immediate cause of World War III is the military preparation of it. — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II. — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
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