I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain… — Jan Peter Balkenende Copy Share Image
I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In researching this volume, I interviewed veterans who had been at the front during World War II. I read countless books, examined… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
The E.U. is the latest of a series of multinational organizations set up after World War II to ensure that there would… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
It was a distortion, a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience,… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
“The general public typically traces the death of Jim Crow to Brown v. Board of Education, although the institution was showing signs… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Twelve years ago, when I was 10, I played at being a soldier. I walked up the brook behind our house in… — David Kenyon Webster Copy Share Image
“What if the Cairo Conference of 1921 went ahead as planned, with Churchill and T.E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell dividing up the… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
“When one looks back across a chasm of seventy years, through a prism of pulp fiction and bad gangster movies, there is… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
“Hearing this, the woman skooched her legs around each other, jingled her bells, leaned toward Everett till their shoulders touched, and laughed… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“Many years ago I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Daily media reports of China’s “aggressive” behavior and unwillingness to accept the “international rules-based order” established by the US after World War… — Graham Allison Copy Share Image
Some European countries insist on saying that during World War II, Hitler burned millions of Jews and put them in concentration camps.… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Sixty million people died in the Second World War. World War II was a gigantic crime. We condemn it all. We are… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
Between the postwar fifties - domesticity, people happy to be alive after the Second World War, wanting to build a home, make… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
Until the late 1950s Britain's leaders were slow to appreciate the social and economic value of motorways. The first stretch of German… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
It may come as a surprise but I also really started to get into history while I was at school. I found… — Rory McIlroy Copy Share Image
After World War II, a lot of people moved to the cities for work and abandoned the old vineyards. Then in the… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
“Putin’s invasion of Ukraine isn’t a staring contest. It’s a land grab, the first of this scale since World War II. But… — Katy Tur Copy Share Image
“You don’t get it, babe,” he said, still looking at the sky. “World War III already started.” She propped herself up on… — Slava Pilotoff Copy Share Image
America and the world have been great beneficiaries of the forward presence of the United States Navy around the globe since the… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
Germany has spent the decades since World War II in national penance for Nazi crimes. America spent the decades after the Civil… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The Second World War, when it came in 1939, was unquestionably the outcome of the First, and in large measure its continuation.… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
America felt victorious and generous after World War II. They had also learned from the mistakes after World War I when they… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“MOST CHILDREN BROUGHT UP IN BROOKLYN BEFORE THE FIRST World War remember Thanksgiving Day there with a peculiar tenderness. It was the… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Everyone sees drama from his own perspective. My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
I'm interested in things when I don't know what they are. Like "Hey, Ray, what the hell is this?" Oh, that's lipstick… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Today I will once more be a prophet. If the international Jewish financiers, inside and outside Europe, succeed in plunging the nations… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
To go back to a moment of Western civilization remote enough in time so that we should be able to look at… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I was taken to something called Telenews in Cleveland by my best friend's father. My own father… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,'… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
