I think I governed effectively. I don't have any doubts about that. I had the benefit, when I was in office, of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Virtually every news source lists the greater number of Palestinians killed in Arab-Israeli wars in order to depict the Israelis as guilty… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate… — Lynne Reid Banks 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
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
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
During World War I the Canadians were the shock troops. In many historical cases, Canadians have been very proficient at killing, and… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
“The challenge to which these two groups responded was the interdependence of human kind, North and South, Rich and Pool, Industrialised and… — Prince Charles HRH the Prince of Wales Copy Share Image
It's very clear that there are greater threats to these ships since, arguably, World War II. There are new technologies that can… — P. W. Singer Copy Share Image
“The First World War; the Russian revolution of 1917; Hitler's revolution of 1933; the second World War; the further development of revolutionary… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“the Armenian genocide of the First World War years, which represented an escalation in intensity, rather than a departure from previous tolerance.… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“though she isn’t stupid at all. “Wow, other people are mastering this, even people who were as clueless as I was in… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“As a ground-combat force approaches the deadly zone and moves within range of the enemy’s rifles, mortars, and machine guns, the dynamics… — Robert Scales Copy Share Image
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time.… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“From the experience of state militias during the American Revolution, to the Spanish-American War; from the legendary Merrill’s Marauders, the highly skilled… — Tom Mangold Copy Share Image
All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my grandfather had bought just before World War II… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
Long before there was discrimination against blacks, there was discrimination against white southerners. When large numbers of these country people moved north… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Fifty years would seem to be time enough to prepare a definitive history of the Second World War. In an age of… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The result of this anti-classical revolution you had just before World War I was that today, almost all the economic growth in… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Speaker, with mixed emotions we mark the 50th anniversary of the Turkish genocide of the Armenian people. In taking notice of the… — Gerald R. Ford 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
“Another steganographic system was still in use in the 20th century: Aeneas suggested pricking holes in a book or other document above… — David Kahn Copy Share Image
The truth is that people - many people are concerned about this, but this is not the first time in America this… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“Victory gave us such insane delusions of grandeur that we helped start a world war we hadn’t a chance of winning. But… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
After World War II the Republicans - the Wall Street crowd - were very worried about a depression coming back. They hated… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Once conscription was introduced during the First World War, and once Britain's wars ceased being confined to the empire or to continental… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“I want you to know that what we record here today may be the last events witnessed by any inhabitants on our… — Kenneth S. Murray Copy Share Image
“As he walked...he picked up the holodreams of the suits... _I believe_. A yellow-suited man was flying one World War II plane… — Misha Copy Share Image
Kennedy was trying to keep us out of war. I was trying to help him keep us out of war. And General… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
I will be remembered when I'm in heaven. People won't remember my name, but they will know the photographer who did that… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
There was an assumption that aerial bombing of civilians in World War II would cause fragile, working-class people to basically have nervous… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
