Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
World War Z is out today. The big zombie movie. The trailer looks scary. You see hordes of bodies climbing and rolling… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“The Chinese death-toll in the chaotic fighting of the Second World War has been estimated at around twenty million, outstripping by far… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in… — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people. — Selma Diamond Copy Share Image
After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli. — Saul David Copy Share Image
Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event,… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
This system, built on free markets, free trade and free peoples and American protection, that's what got us from the end of… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, however, weapons of mass destruction tend to attract maniacs: men - it's almost always men - who want to jab the… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
I am encyclopaedic on World War II. My dad took me to D-Day beaches when I was a kid. I was there… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
The U.S. is not a claimant state in the South China Sea or in the China-Japan dispute over the Senkaku Islands. But,… — Lee Hsien Loong Copy Share Image
World War II is smothered in sentimentality and nostalgia. What's interesting about Vietnam is that sentimentality is just not there, so you're… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people… — Parker Stevenson Copy Share Image
I felt implicated in American affairs.Outraged at the blatant lies about Iraqs involvement in al Qaeda, at the regimes arrogance and stupidity,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Berryman" I will tell you what he told me in the years just after the war as we then called the second… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
I don't even know in American educational history classes how much of D-Day, World War II, all of that is taught versus… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Treating Abuse Today (Tat), 3(4), pp. 26-33 Freyd: I see what you're saying but people in psychology don't have a uniform agreement… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“I built, of blocks, a town three hundred thousand strong, whose avenues were paved with a wine-colored rug and decorated by large… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“While marriage rates for middle-class white women soared through the 1940s and 1950s, for black women, mid-twentieth century conditions were very different.… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy’s vast store of priceless monuments and art… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
“During World War II, a few years after Norma Jeane’s time in an orphanage, thousands of children were evacuated from the air… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States… — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
I'm a bit embarrassed about how little I know about the First World War. I didn't even know that tanks were used… — Guy Martin Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened, surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece. — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
“Ever since I served as an infantryman in the First World War I had a great dislike of people who themselves in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
So, I mean, what's it like being old? It's gotta be weird, right? I mean, you saw a lotta stuff go down.… — Nick Swardson Copy Share Image
I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
“The poor died first and last in World War I, World War II, and Korea, and fifty-eight thousand Americans died in Vietnam,… — Richard LeMieux Copy Share Image
One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World… — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
The Japanese Prime Minister has apologized for Japan's part in World War II. However, he still hasn't mentioned anything about karaoke. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Both of my grandfathers served in World War II, both in the Pacific. One wouldn't talk about it, and one would. — Nancy Dubuc Copy Share Image
Rejected names for World War II: 'Global Super Killfest', 'Germaniacal Japandamonium', 'World War 1: New Moon'. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the… — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
