“During World War I, Oakley offered to train a regiment of women sharpshooters, but the government ignored her. Instead, she set out… — Ann Shen Copy Share Image
A personal story of the horrors that Poles lived through during World War II. When God Looked the Other Way, above all… — Arnold Beichman Copy Share Image
My paternal grandfather, when he was in the army in World War II - he was over in the South Pacific, and… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
Being a black male in the Deep South after World War II, you could actually come home in your uniform and be… — Rob Morgan Copy Share Image
It could be said that all armed conflicts are a ludicrous and shameful waste of lives, but World War I has a… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Many are convinced that the Second World War will be the war to end all wars, but Patton knows better. As a… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
When I first met the survivors of the Indianapolis in 1999 while writing a book about them, their story - the last… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
When I came to Detroit, if you threw a stone up in the air it would hit an autoworker on its way… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
“Will I go into starvation mode? The short answer is an emphatic “no.” This is one of the great dieting myths—the fear… — Michael Mosley Copy Share Image
“Who today reflects that in the Battle of the Somme alone, where every man was an eager volunteer of ‘Kitchener’s Army’, more… — Arthur Stanley Gould Lee Copy Share Image
“Hoffa and his Strawberry Boys’ victory in 1932 was a rare labor victory in those days. In that same year a group… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
My dad and mom were more like World War II-era parents, even though it was the 1960s, because they were both born… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
“When World War II erupted, colonialism was at its apogee. The courde of the war, however, its symbolic undertones, would sow the… — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems I found with Irish politics and the economic thing was after the war, after World War II,… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
The Iranian issue I don't think has much to do with nuclear weapons frankly. Nobody is saying Iran should have nuclear weapons… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“By the end of the war, the Civil War had become a forerunner to the trench warfare of World War I, and… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
When he served in China during World War II, [Ho Chi Minh] learned about Mao Zedong's tactics of guerrilla war against the… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
Earth is already being integrated into the Pentagon, and the man in the Pentagon is already piloting the world war - or… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family full of strong women. A great aunt on my mother's side had been a matron on… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
When Turkey began approaching the EU, I wasn't the only one who worried that the dark stain in Turkey's history - or… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“It is by manipulating “hidden forces” that the advertising experts induce us to buy their wares—a toothpaste, a brand of cigarettes, a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I was shaped by a pit environment and the Second World War. My playground was on the pit tip at Clay Cross… — Dennis Skinner Copy Share Image
For instance, the Persian Gulf War was a miniature world war. It took place in a small geographical area. In this sense… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
What we went to World War II for, at least in my mind, was not getting taken care of. It was supposed… — Al Feldstein Copy Share Image
Each of us is free to move our consciousness through that infinite pattern of possibilities as we please. If we're filled with… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“The Second World War signalled the creation of the military-industrial complex in Britain and elsewhere. This militarized economy, born out of an… — Andrew Feinstein Copy Share Image
“He won all those medals in the Second World War, which was staged by robots so that Dwayne Hoover could give a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“When Arthur Schlesinger Sr. pioneered the 'presidential greatness poll' in 1948, the top five were Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Let us not forget that the European Community started as a project for peace after the terrible Second World War. And today… — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
When the Second World War finished, I was 23 and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
A few years ago, I was trying to buy a piece of land next to a house I had in Newfoundland. I… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
In the time of my parents, before World War One, most people who came to New Zealand from Europe were the more… — Maurice Wilkins Copy Share Image
My father, who was a sergeant in the RAF during the Second World War, was killed in a hitchhiking accident while returning… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I am not a historian, but I find myself being more and more fascinated by history and now I find myself reading… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is… — Tom Hodgkinson 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
![“When World War II erupted, colonialism was at its apogee. The courde of the war, however, its symbolic undertones, would sow the seeds of the system's defeat and demise. [...] The central subject, the essence, the core relations between Europeans and Africans during the colonial era, was the…” quote by Ryszard Kapuściński](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9d9/ryszard-kapuscinski-4233_africa_when-world-war-ii-erupted-colonialism-wa_1718725.jpg)
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