Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
During World War I the Canadians were the shock troops. In many historical cases, Canadians have been very proficient at killing, and… — Joseph Boyden 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
When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
What's going on in Syria is the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II. And we are punishing those who are suffering… — Daniel Benjamin Copy Share Image
I was trying to do like a spaghetti western but using World War II iconography. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I… — Oscar Levant Copy Share Image
What happened in World War II was what happened in war generally, and that was whatever the initiating cause, and however clear… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their… — Eisaku Sato Copy Share Image
A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity.… — John Chamberlain 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
When I came to Detroit, if you threw a stone up in the air it would hit an autoworker on its way… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems I found with Irish politics and the economic thing was after the war, after World War II,… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
Although the United States lost a quarter of a million men and women, civilians and soldiers, in World War II, that's considerably… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me… — Howard K. Smith Copy Share Image
America felt victorious and generous after World War II. They had also learned from the mistakes after World War I when they… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II. — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
Sixty million people died in the Second World War. World War II was a gigantic crime. We condemn it all. We are… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
World War I, that tiresome European engagement that threatened to close down French couture. — Caroline Seebohm Copy Share Image
In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
