Winston Churchill inspired my leadership philosophy. I've read a huge number of his writings, especially his diaries from the Second World War.… — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
“British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the world war… — Robert Jackson Copy Share Image
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Were there atheists in foxholes during World War II? Of course, as can be verified by my dogtags . . . A… — Warren Allen Smith Copy Share Image
I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Are you still as angry as you used to be?' Julia, the World War II resistance fighter, asked Lillian Hellman in the… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
I'm an immigrant to the U.S., and I've constantly been thinking about America both from the inside and from the outside. And… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Not long after I was married, World War II began. My husband John volunteered for the Navy and was sent to Pensacola… — Frances Hesselbein Copy Share Image
“Brody, please tell me what this has all been about" I said. "The lead-up to the Second World War" said Brody, still… — Van Badham Copy Share Image
“To those who fought World War II, it was plain enough that Allied bombs were killing huge numbers of German civilians, that… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
“Barry, let me give you a history lesson, Ladybird Hope-style. When the Vietnamese got kids hooked on drugs and we had to… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
There was a deliberate decision after the failure of the League of Nations to make the next attempt to establish a global… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
“Dad used to tell me about the guys at the VFW who could feel their amputated limbs. I feel like one of… — A.S. King Copy Share Image
“What you should do," she told Fat during one of his darker hours, "is get into studying the characteristics of the T-34."… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The wealth of data to be found in social and political life. The belief that people do not want to make sacrifices… — Erich Fromm 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
“After the Second World War, San Francisco was the main point of re-entry for sailors returning from the Pacific. Out at sea,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividing line - at least for… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Let me tell you the following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading upward and upward:… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
But let there be no misunderstanding. The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World… — Jim Bunning Copy Share Image
I looked back on the roaring Twenties - with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby,' and the pre-Code films - as a party I… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
“Let me quote once more from Tolkien’s lecture, which he delivered a few months before the fantasy-besotted Nazis started World War II.… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
When I was a young boy, during the aftermath of World War II, Germany was broken and in ruins. Many people were… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are… — Hjalmar Branting Copy Share Image
“A blanket could be used to teach geography to a sleeping man. Better do it quick, before he wakes up and finds… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
[My father ] came home from World War II and he voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower. He was pretty thoughtful about those things,… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier… — Walter Kohn Copy Share Image
The ICRC did not see Nazi Germany for what it was. Instead, the organization maintained the illusion that the Third Reich was… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
During the Second World War, nobody built any concert halls or theaters. After the war, Lincoln Center was a very brave project… — Hugh Hardy Copy Share Image
Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with… — Julie Salamon Copy Share Image
“In April 1967, Johnson had dispatched General Creighton Abrams to Vietnam as Westy’s deputy. Abrams, a famous tank commander in World War… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
By my count, of the more than 600 English-language World War II movies made since 1940, only four have even acknowledged the… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed,… — Harald zur Hausen Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity.… — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
My grandmother, Dorothy Walker Bush, worked long, hard hours for the Red Cross during World War II because it was the right… — Neil Bush Copy Share Image