The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the… — Holland Smith Copy Share Image
If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
America is always fighting. We're the one that wants to go to World War III with Russia over Ukraine. So we're the… — Donald Trump 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
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
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
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
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
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
On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is a claim from which I will… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people… — Leonard Slatkin Copy Share Image
I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business… — Tim Winton 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
More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I,… — Aaron Huey Copy Share Image
The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
There is nothing preventing the enemy reaching Paris. We were fighting on our last line and it has been breached. I am… — Maxime Weygand Copy Share Image
Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards...the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill...tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
Now that we've made that decision, everyone is thinking about the practical consequences and I think Theresa May could be the most… — Jeremy Hunt Copy Share Image
WOMEN WHO STEPPED UP WERE MEASURED AS CITIZENS OF THE NATION, NOT AS WOMEN...THIS WAS A PEOPLE'S WAR, AND EVERYONE WAS IN… — Oveta Culp Hobby Copy Share Image
I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second… — Ernst Zundel Copy Share Image
The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65… — Naoto Kan Copy Share Image
Until the Second World War, it was unthinkable for a married woman of the working or middle class to disgrace her husband… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign on Russia, we can already see, after six months of fighting, that he has made… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
German people get very uptight if you mention World War II. Germans today feel that what's past is past, new generations don't… — Donna Summer Copy Share Image
Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed… — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image