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
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
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
While the Second World War brought about untold misery and suffering, it was also a time when the world witnessed extraordinary bravery.… — Sam Kutesa Copy Share Image
You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun?… — H. R. McMaster 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
“The general economic growth of the quarter of a century that followed World War II not surprisingly created many illusions. In the… — Samir Amin Copy Share Image
“Twenty years prior to my birth, Marie Curie advocated the use of Radiography in the diagnosis of injuries and treatment of wounded… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“TO DODD, PAPEN’S REMARK ranked as one of the most idiotic he had heard since his arrival in Berlin. And he had… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“Depending on which flavor of academic scholarship you prefer, that age had its roots in the Renaissance or Mannerist periods in Germany,… — David Downie 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
“Who's Thyrza?" Molly asked. "What? Oh, some World War II femme fatale. Amelia Beauregard's boyfriend ran away with her." "That was my… — Kirsten Miller Copy Share Image
“It's like World War III. Everything is white. They'll take our bright colors away and use them in the war effort.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion? Why aren't they having a… — Elton John Copy Share Image
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political. — Stephen Bayley 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
I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that the first World War put an end the kind of music that Mahler, Bruckner and Richard Strauss were writing.… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me… — Howard K. Smith Copy Share Image
“Sgt. Basilone in his personal humility and unwavering dedication to the men who served with him, became a true hero of the… — Jim Proser Copy Share Image
I studied history at university, so I'm always quite fascinated by the Second World War and France. That's one of my interests. — Ruth Wilson Copy Share Image
When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses… — Laozi 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
In times of crisis we must all find new ways of working - just as we did after the great fire and… — Lindsay Hoyle Copy Share Image
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
For a while, after the Second World War, when there was strong support for labor, this was done subtly. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
