The stabilizing influence of the modern social welfare state emerged only after World War II, nearly 200 years on from the 18th-century… — Moshe Vardi Copy Share Image
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“History lesson, folks: The tax system we have today—the one we've come to know and love—began ninety-four years ago as a (drum… — Neal Boortz 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
I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
“But the sluggishness of the economy widened the gulf between grand expectations and the real limits of progress, undercutting the all-important sense… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“Denial is like a glass wall, easy to see beyond, but impossible to walk through.” — The Doctor’s Daughter: Totally heartbreaking and… — Shari J. Ryan Copy Share Image
“With boarding passes in hand Adeline led her children, each carrying a small suitcase, up the long gangway onto the Dominion Monarch,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
The way that Trump spoke about the outside world was the most aggressive, most hyper-nationalist, and in some ways most hostile of… — Charles Krauthammer 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
“There has been much controversy about the numbers of those imprisoned and killed at various times in the Stalin years, but the… — Archie Brown Copy Share Image
“In other words, it was unavoidable, and probably inevitable, so we might as well close our minds and accept that 16.5 million… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is not Harry Truman, who dropped the A-bomb on Japan to stop World War II. Barack Obama is not John… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the… — Slavoj Žižek 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
“We Americans” is a fabrication of the rulers. There are the tens and tens and tens of millions of workers and farmers… — Jack Barnes Copy Share Image
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not. — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
“Humanity’s first faster-than-light spacecraft crashed into Pluto and vaporised a significant portion of it. Oops. Pluto’s status as a planet had been… — L. G. Estrella Copy Share Image
If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice. — Frank Knox Copy Share Image
I wrote about World War II because I didn't understand it. I think that's the reason that historians are drawn to any… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we… — Ken Mehlman Copy Share Image
“We actually tried Free Will before. After taking you from hunting and gathering to the height of the Roman Empire we stepped… — Philip Dick Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, just to see what was happening, my father would drive to the airport…. Before my birth, during the “Roaring 20’s” Newark… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise 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
“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
