My strength has now been reduced to the equivalent of 36 squadrons...we should be able to carry on the war single-handed for… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity… — Jan Peter Balkenende Copy Share Image
I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that. — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
I did not believe in the war. I thought it was wrong to go into any war. And I got to the… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
When you walk through the hospital, you waiver between feeling bad for everyone else and feeling bad for yourself. It's a war… — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image
The big news is the midterm elections. Last night Republicans picked up a dozen seats in the House to give them their… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not… — Traian Basescu Copy Share Image
I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary… — Dennis Muren Copy Share Image
After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
During the Second World War, nobody built any concert halls or theaters. After the war, Lincoln Center was a very brave project… — Hugh Hardy Copy Share Image
Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder… — Arthur Wimperis 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
Is Russia worried that defeating Daesh will open the door for defeating Bashar Assad? That would be a different story. But I… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used. — Naoto Kan Copy Share Image
You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
Think of Europe in the 20th century. Two World Wars generated by nationalism. France, Germany, Britain fighting with each other. — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
I mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
For instance, the Persian Gulf War was a miniature world war. It took place in a small geographical area. In this sense… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
What we went to World War II for, at least in my mind, was not getting taken care of. It was supposed… — Al Feldstein Copy Share Image
I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in… — Bryant Gumbel Copy Share Image
In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
When the Second World War finished, I was 23 and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
I consider Ronald Reagan one of the greatest U.S. presidents since the World War II because of his staunch resistance to Communism… — Yelena Bonner Copy Share Image
While American men are fighting to rid the old world of autocracy let American women set to and rid the new world… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union. — Frank Knox Copy Share Image
Soldiers of the Reich! This day, you are to take part in an offensive of such importance that the whole future of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast? Example: What… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general. — George Crumb Copy Share Image
My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every… — William Westmoreland 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
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