World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
I'm not worried about the Third World War. That's the Third World's Problem. — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II. — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue. — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain… — Jan Peter Balkenende Copy Share Image
As a result of the cold, the machine-guns were no longer able to fire...the result of all this was a panic...The battle… — Heinz Guderian Copy Share Image
My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with… — Julie Salamon Copy Share Image
I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
I don't know what weapons will be used in the Third World War. But I can tell you what they'll use in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But let there be no misunderstanding. The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World… — Jim Bunning Copy Share Image
I'm interested in things when I don't know what they are. Like "Hey, Ray, what the hell is this?" Oh, that's lipstick… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
America felt victorious and generous after World War II. They had also learned from the mistakes after World War I when they… — George Soros Copy Share Image
What we do with this peace-whether we preserve it and defend it, or whether we lose it and let it slip away-will… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
After World War II, a lot of people moved to the cities for work and abandoned the old vineyards. Then in the… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
I'm sort of optimistic about what we could do, but I'm very pessimistic about what we will do. I can't tell you… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
What would be the difference if we retreated and let the French and Germans make decisions for the world? We tried that… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
I was raised in California during the Second World War and into the '50s and everything was fine, everything was great. The… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
However, there is a fundamental difference between the issue related to Japan's history and our negotiations with China. What is it all… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
If you look back to the anti-intervention movements, what were they? Let's take the Vietnam War - the biggest crime since the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Germany is not the only country that one could call post-heroic. But there is an additional aspect for Germany when it comes… — Heinrich August Winkler Copy Share Image
What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War. — Al Capone Copy Share Image
...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire. — David Irving Copy Share Image
Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed. — Patrick Macnee Copy Share Image
Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people. — Kim Campbell Copy Share Image
