I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible. — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
I'm a Veteran. I was in the Navy, in the submarine corps. I come from a military family. Both of my grandparents… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
What we accomplished during World War Two is just amazing. We turned our country upside down. African Americans were demanding to be… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
“But it is not so simple as to merely blame the Communists for Poland's state of denial (of World War II atrocities… — Zofia Zaks Copy Share Image
We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
My dad never told me that when he was serving in World War II he had gotten married at a young age. — Bruce Buffer Copy Share Image
It was an easy thing to tax for a young country. And then gradually we moved to property taxes, manufacturing taxes, and… — T.R. Reid 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
There is a difference between Iraq, where you have Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put together after the First World War by the… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it… — Patrick Macnee Copy Share Image
Having the United Kingdom in the European Union gives us much greater confidence about the strength of the transatlantic union and is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There is an old and a new consciousness of the age. The old one is directed towards the individual. The new one… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
There's an amazing movie, I think the best war movie ever made: it's called 'Come and See.' Soviet film. Made in the… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
“Karachi was not always synonymous with charred buses and mutilated bodies wrapped in gunny bags. The ‘Guide to Karachi’ distributed to American… — Laurent Gayer Copy Share Image
“The battlefields of World War I established the importance of petroleum as an element of national power when the internal combustion machine… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
People often refer to bygone days as a simpler time. Perhaps, more accurately, my grandparents' generation focused better on what mattered. Traffic… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“It wasn't until the 1920s that a bare majority of children grew up in families where the father's labor purchased the family's… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“The real trick lies in losing wars, in knowing which wars can be lost. Italy has been losing wars for centuries, and… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Ironically, the memory of the women heroes of World War I was largely eclipsed by the very women they had inspired. The… — Kathryn J. Atwood Copy Share Image
“… and just as suddenly he was with Stern and it was a night twenty years ago in a city once called… — Edward Whittemore Copy Share Image
World War II synchronizes things for a lot of people. There's a kind of wakeup call. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I think that the first World War put an end the kind of music that Mahler, Bruckner and Richard Strauss were writing.… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
