Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II.… — Eileen Collins Copy Share Image
Two factors explain our success. One, MIT's renaissance after World War II as a federally supported research resource. Two, the mathematical revolution… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings,… — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he… — Roy Wilkins Copy Share Image
The end of World War I also marked the end of bourgeois culture. An inner emptiness developed that, in the 19th and… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
For 60 years, since World War II, we have been trying to create a rules-based system, a global economic system. We understand… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We salute our veterans of Pearl Harbor and World War II, whose sacrifices saved democracy during a dark hour. In their memory,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“The young officers who had come back [from WW1], hardened by their terrible experience and disgusted by the attitude of the younger… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that World War II was experienced very much as a continuity in that sense. Most of World War… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Any rational human being is horrified and existentially baffled by the reality of the Holocaust meted out by the Nazis, by the… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I started with the book 'Boardwalk Empire' and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
[During a pre-war interview with Hitler when he screamed at her, 'The Jews! The Jews! What are you doing about the Jews… — Anne O'Hare McCormick Copy Share Image
[After World War II:] By now we are used to the rubble, which they clear up religiously and indefatigably. What a determination… — Lotte Lenya Copy Share Image
I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And… — Ben Barnes Copy Share Image
I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954;… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
We haven't had a world war in a long time. We do have mass movements of people out of Syria and North… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
For my mother, having a family was the most important thing in her life. In the Second World War, it was a… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Also, any older song, especially any World War II songs remind me of Mama. She goes around the house either whistling or… — Reba McEntire Copy Share Image
Honestly, I really didn't want to take on World War II France, but when I came across the story of a nineteen-year-old… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full… — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
German people are essentially pacifists. Many still remember the experience of World War II. And they may not have seen Saddam Hussein… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked,… — James Cagney Copy Share Image
The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
![“Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.'” quote by Eileen Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6cd/eileen-collins-41444_able_because-of-amelia-earhart-we-had-more-wo_1482235.jpg)
![“The young officers who had come back [from WW1], hardened by their terrible experience and disgusted by the attitude of the younger generation to whom this experience meant just nothing, used to lecture us for our softness. Of course they could produce no argument that we were capable of…” quote by George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/878/george-orwell-57_good-thing_the-young-officers-who-had-come-back-fro_1222290.jpg)
![“[During a pre-war interview with Hitler when he screamed at her, 'The Jews! The Jews! What are you doing about the Jews in America?':] Why nothing. We think we're just as good as they are.” quote by Anne O'Hare McCormick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/16a/anne-o-hare-mccormick-64143_america_during-a-pre-war-interview-with-hitler-w_2702730.jpg)
![“[After World War II:] By now we are used to the rubble, which they clear up religiously and indefatigably. What a determination to get on top again! One could admire it, if one would not be afraid that somewhere lurks another Hitler. But you can't seem to find a single Nazi in Germany! Nobody was…” quote by Lotte Lenya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/97b/lotte-lenya-59535_admire_after-world-war-ii-by-now-we-are-used-to_2919456.jpg)
