“The war's [World War II] end has left America with loads of get-up-and-go, and no place to go. ” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“WHO WAS THE PRESIDENT OF the United States during the Third World War?” — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I lost a great uncle in World War II who was with the Royal Canadian Air Force. — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
We are the people who won the Second World War and saved the world. We went to the moon. We gave the… — Brian Williams Copy Share Image
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history. — Bob Crow Copy Share Image
Why should Americans care about the Nazi back story in World War II? If you don't have the Nazi back story in… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
My grandfather was in World War II and fought in Europe in Army Infantry, so I have such a huge respect for… — Ashton Holmes Copy Share Image
We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in… — George Wald Copy Share Image
You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun?… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
World War I was the deadliest conflict the world had ever known. Veterans Day originated from the American people recognizing that a… — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
I had been a guerrilla leader in World War II. And I used to say that the way to fight the guerrilla… — Roger Hilsman Copy Share Image
Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
I've seen terrorism close up, but I don't live in a state of terror at all. I'm comfortable going to the Manhattan… — Douglas Brunt Copy Share Image
The rise of the anti-hero can be traced to a litany of social reasons. Post World War I, for instance, saw the… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
On healthcare we are the prisoner of our past. The way we got to develop any kind of medical insurance program was… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
After the Second World War, facilitating the establishment of the UN and aiding the reconstruction of Europe, the United States was widely… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
“Very few people know where they will die, But I do; in a brick-faced hospital, Divided, not unlike Caesarean Gaul, Into three… — L.E. Sissman Copy Share Image
“And, as inflation has fallen, so bonds have rallied in what has been one of the great bond bull markets of modern… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“...new discoveries show that American soldiers used the swastika as their symbol early in World War I, and up to 1941, against… — James B. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“ I was on one of my world 'walkabouts.' It had taken me once more through Hong Kong, to Japan, Australia, and… — Timothy James Dean Copy Share Image
A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
During the second world war, my grandad was away for the best part of six years. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II. — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
The immediate cause of World War III is the military preparation of it. — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Doing nothing in the face of aggression is how World War III will eventually start. — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war. — John Edward Christopher Hill Copy Share Image