If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian… — Georg Solti Copy Share Image
People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
Growing up during World War II certainly affected my whole view of life, but I hardly know how, it goes so deep.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I found myself surrounded by really old veterans wearing hats that said, "Retired Marine - SEMPER FI." These hats didn't appear to… — Mollie Gross Copy Share Image
My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every… — William Westmoreland Copy Share Image
“The fall of the protecting class walls transformed the slumbering majorities behind all parties into one great unorganized, structureless mass of furious… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Ornate language tended to unsettle him. Passages from nineteenth-century novels might glow like hot coals or squirm like heaps of snakes. In… — Harry Dolan Copy Share Image
When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had… — Noam Chomsky 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
“On the labour front in 1919 there was an unprecedented number of strikes involving many millions of workers. One of the lager… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“In the eleven months preceding the outbreak of World War II, 211 treaties of peace were signed. Were these treaties of peace… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“In the end, the cats were rounded up and put into a room. My father went into the room with his First… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The Holocaust is as real a historical event as World War II itself and not to be challenged. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods. They were out to… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Coming into World War II, we were seen as a conquering hero for beleaguered people, we are now seen as invader, an… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“I can’t say enough about the wonderful people I met in Cuba and feel saddened that they are stuck in the 50’s… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
There arent many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses,… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
