Human beings of today are more fragile, whereas people born in wartime, during the Second World War, eventually became the great players… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
We Germans carried our hatred from the First World War to the Second World War, and now you are about to carry… — Hans Fritzsche Copy Share Image
I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still.' I play a World War II veteran, I… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Since the Second World War, as female expectations and opportunities have risen, becoming a royal woman - and remaining a royal woman… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
During the Second World War, the Cote d'Azur as a holiday destination closed down, but once the Allies had liberated the coast… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia has said that if the US-led coalition against Daesh is prepared to engage in ground operations, we will be prepared… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
“World War 2 is the ultimate geopolitical smoke screen, fed to the livestock religiously, with Hitler as the moral decoy, so that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“During the Second World War, the British Broadcasting Corporation prefaced some radio broadcasts with the beginning of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony — BAH,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men's magazines in the period immediately after World War II were almost all outdoor-oriented. They were connected to some extent in the… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Acting on the theory that sometimes luck is better than work, I randomly called several people named Dattilo in Kentucky. All were… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
Now, 'high-intensity conflict' is a fancy word for saying tanks on tanks, aircraft shooting each other out of the sky, a great… — Mark Esper Copy Share Image
The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
“Unlike European empires, ours was supposed to entail a concert of equal, sovereign democratic American republics, with shared interests and values, led… — Greg Grandin Copy Share Image
“amount to a fart in a cyclone. His parents and their parson had tried to sell him the same message, binding him… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
“It caused my opposition to any ideologies—Marxist, Fascist, National Socialist, what you will—because they were incompatible with science in the rational sense… — eric voegelin Copy Share Image
“Humanity’s first faster-than-light spacecraft crashed into Pluto and vaporised a significant portion of it. Oops. Pluto’s status as a planet had been… — L. G. Estrella Copy Share Image
“Then there is Roman engineering: the Roman roads, aqueducts, the Colosseum. Warfare, alas, has always been beneficial to engineering. Yet there are… — Petr Beckmann Copy Share Image
In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The real trick lies in losing wars, in knowing which wars can be lost. Italy has been losing wars for centuries, and… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“One of the striking things about places heavily contaminated by radioactive nuclides is the richness of their wildlife. This is true of… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II. — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
If World War III is fought with nuclear weapons, World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. — Arashi Copy Share Image
There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
From the ruins of the second world war, Labour rebuilt Britain and set it on course for European co-operation and membership of… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
“The Lebanese government has officially recognized the Armenian genocide, but nowhere is there any official memorial to the victims of the World… — Louis Farshee Copy Share Image
Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“the democracies that arose after the First World War (and the Second) often collapsed when a single party seized power in some… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist. — Walter Kohn Copy Share Image
I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit… — Ernst Zundel Copy Share Image
We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
