People would always say horror movies always thrive during times of war; that's just what people would say. And I don't know… — Rob Zombie 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
Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
“Chester William Nimitz, Sr. was the last surviving officer to serve as a five star admiral in the Unites States Navy, holding… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
You don't achieve anything by stopping at the first sign of difficulty. If we'd stopped after Dieppe in World War II, where… — Rick Hillier Copy Share Image
“The monstrous effects on Korean civilians of the methods of warfare adopted by the United Nations — the blanket fire bombing of… — Reg Whitaker Copy Share Image
“Few would argue against safe-guarding the nation. But in the judgment of at least one of the country's most distinguished presidential scholars,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“I remain basically a socialist. It is more relevant today because capitalism has reached its apex. It will begin to slide down… — Luis Taruc Copy Share Image
A war film can be propaganda and they're very valuable as propaganda, as we realized in Britain in the Second World War.… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
“Frank Marshall Davis, the former Communist who was Obama’s mentor in Hawaii, was so radical that he opposed President Truman’s Marshall Plan… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“... that with the defeat of the revolutionary workers, Europe finally fell back into its old double slavery, into Anglo-Russian slavery. The… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Now we will live!” This is what the hungry little boy liked to say, as he toddled along the quiet roadside, or… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“And so the catastrophe of 1929–33 did to the certainties of laissez-faire economics what science did to nineteenth-century religion and what the… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“For several crucial days, I believe, Kennedy and Khrushchev were each privately prepared to back down, “but not yet,” as they sparred… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“In the early months of World War II, San Francisco's Fill-more district, or the Western Addition, experienced a visible revolution. On the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I keep thinking that history runs in cycles, and that some day certain large issues will come before the country again. There… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“History is made up of "moral" judgments based on politics. We condemned Lenin's acceptance of money from the Germans in 1917 but… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“Dr. Louis Jolyon “Jolly” West was born in New York City on October 6, 1924. He died of cancer on January 2,… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
“After World War II, the Italians made tremendous efforts to rebuild their country’s industry and economy. During the 1950s and ‘60s, with… — Marilyn Tolhurst Copy Share Image
“After World War Two, the Australian army had been re-organised into its peace-time army status. The army was primarily three battalions which… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“Although there are many differences between America and post–World War I Germany, history has some economic lessons to teach us. Remember that… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
“During the Allied invasion of World War II, hundreds of life-like rubber dummy paratroopers were dropped into the French countryside. These distractions… — Aaron R. Yilmaz Copy Share Image
“Poultry Farm (Sonnet) First law of poultry farming: keep your livestock busy with trivial problems, so they stay ever oblivious to systemic… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“In the City Market is the Meet Café. Followers of obsolete, unthinkable trades doodling in Etruscan, addicts of drugs not yet synthesized,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I used to be really into these when I was a kid,” Nine says. “Now I’m more into the real thing. You… — Pittacus Lore 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
I worry more about the marketing that's taken hold since the 70s. The Jazz era, the Swing era, those were huge. Entire… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“The Adoption When Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Romano Guardini, surveying the moral and intellectual ruin that was Europe after the Second World War, wrote that we had entered the… — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
“Since the 1920s, the much-reduced Christian populations have tried various strategies to maintain their existence, but none shows great hopes of success.41… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Frank Fiorini, better known as Frank Sturgis, had an interesting career that started when he quit high school during his senior year… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“That summer, Lee Harvey Oswald handed out pro-Castro literature stamped with the address 544 Camp Street, a commercial building. This was a… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
“Hundreds of political assassinations related to minority races, labor leaders and spokesmen against fascism have taken place in the U.S. since World… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
“The biggest explosion of the First World War was set off by miners from the allied forces, who dug shafts underneath German… — Jack Goldstein Copy Share Image
“When America stood on the threshold of World War II, Hoover continued a friendly relationship with the Nazis dominating Interpol, the Berlin-based… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
“Billy looked at the clock on the gas stove. He had an hour to kill before the saucer came. He went into… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I know it feels like two steps forward and one step back, but we are making progress. In my lifetime, I have… — Patrick Stewart 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
