“THE SUMMER OF 1863 marked a crucial transformation in the Union war effort—the organization and deployment of black regiments that would eventually… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
There is surely no more unselfish person than the anthologist. For while all we others are striving to ensure our own immortality… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
When you say that after World War I there was a pandemic that killed more people than the war itself, most will… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“The outsiders, with their own objectives, provided rifles, ammunition, communications equipment, military vehicles and combat advice to young men who lacked the… — Charles Glass Copy Share Image
“Even in times of trauma, we try to maintain a sense of normality until we no longer can. That, my friends, is… — Lori Goodwin Copy Share Image
Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The kids filed quietly to the edge of the strip to wait for the helicopters. Other Marines stopped to watch them, wanting… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
our nerve filaments twitch with its presence day and night, nothing we say has not the husky phlegm of it in the… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
We need to recognize the reality of the threat from radical Islam: that it will be an enduring conflict, that there are… — Pete Hoekstra Copy Share Image
I think there's loads of undiagnosed depression where I came from. Post-traumatic stress disorder as well. Some of the things you see… — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
The United States has become addicted to violence, and this dependency is fueled increasingly by its willingness to wage war at home… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Nowhere have women been more excluded from decision-making than in the military and foreign affairs. When it comes to the military and… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
It's just so funny that when I was growing up, I was very much of an Australian. I just thought it was… — Catriona Gray Copy Share Image
“In my lifelong study of the scores of species of ants to be found in the tropical forests of Dal Hon, I… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“The hardships of the Civil War were forgotten. But we will never forget that each of us was motivated by the firm… — Georgy Zhukov Copy Share Image
“Where resides the comforting knowledge of history's vast, cyclical sweep, the ebb and flow of wars and peace? Peace is the time… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
After the Cold War, a nuclear-free world appeared to be within reach. However, the lack of a collective sense of ownership allowed… — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
If a quick glance back over world history shows us anything, it shows us that war was one of our most universal… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Throughout history, religious differences have divided men and women from their neighbors and have served as justification for some of humankind's bloodiest… — Prince Hassan bin Talal Copy Share Image
“Our motto, Fide et marte, seems appropriate. By faith and by war. Most of the time I think I believe in it.… — Marilyn Almodóvar Copy Share Image
“Instances are given in Hawaiian tradition of the tide of battle being turned, on more than one occasion, by desperate women transformed… — King David Kalakaua Copy Share Image
... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“ "Your king did not break through with me until his touch stopped taking and started giving and until, in our cham,… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
I talked to George Lucas once, not about Star Wars. Everyone wants to talk to him about Star Wars, and I didn't… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Basketball is about relationships. The bond that you create by playing together, going through battles together. The trust that you build goes… — Marc Gasol Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of all of us to remind governments of their commitments to settle disputes by peaceful means and to… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Our efforts have brought new hope to all mankind. We have beaten back despair and defeatism. We have saved a number of… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“Religion is too often the pretext for war, hatred, intolerance among different faiths, and competitive piety within faiths. But the problem isn’t… — Ray Bennett Copy Share Image
“Nothing moves forward in a story except through conflict. Writers who cannot grasp this truth, the truth of conflict, writers who have… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
“With the coming of the war the situation regarding the Jews altered drastically. It is not widely known that world Jewry declared… — Richard Harwood Copy Share Image
“The nature of the enemy's warfare in your life is to cause you to become discouraged and to cast away your confidence.… — Bob Sorge Copy Share Image
There are some whose only reason for inciting war is to use it as a means to exercise their tyranny over their… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Mr. Lincoln was generous by nature, and though his whole heart was in the war, he could not but respect the valor… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
“[A]ll the countries had enough to pay for these enormous protective walls, and nobody thought about war. They only armed themselves 'just… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“You can’t know its mind, and you can’t control it. This creature is nothing but war incarnate. If you traffic with it,… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end,… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“The terms of this combat are these. If Iofur Raknison kills me, then he will be king forever, safe from challenge or… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image