We are spending more as a percentage of our entire economy, almost 25 percent, than we have spent at any time since… — John Thune Copy Share Image
In World War II, America was the Arsenal of Democracy, providing war materiel to our Allies that ultimately led to victory over… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The United States bombed Indochina with three times the tonnage of bombs used in all of World War II; Cambodia alone was… — Vaddey Ratner 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
I was raised in a house on the far South Side of Chicago, in a development erected on a landfill made from… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
Since World War II, the rules-based international order created and maintained by the United States has benefited peoples around the globe and… — Mac Thornberry Copy Share Image
“June 6, 1944: Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, on 'D-Day,' beginning the liberation of German-occupied western Europe during World… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
German people get very uptight if you mention World War II. Germans today feel that what's past is past, new generations don't… — Donna Summer Copy Share Image
I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
U.S. Treasury was able to save the country during the Civil War by expanding the deficit... They saved the economic well-being of… — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I remember I wanted to put so much makeup on - it was just a natural thing… — Natalia Vodianova Copy Share Image
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
President Clinton broke ground Saturday for the World War II memorial in Washington. He'll never have the military's full respect. However, after… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is,… — Jimmy Doolittle Copy Share Image
Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
“I went along on this ride, as did Adolph, and we returned to the Feudenheim district of Mannheim, which was where our… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
“There have been ample opportunities since 1945 to show that material superiority in war is not enough if the will to fight… — Richard Overy Copy Share Image
Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have… — Vicki Myron Copy Share Image
“Net wages: “It’s not what you make, but what you net” after paying the FIRE sector, basic utilities and taxes. The usual… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“Thanks to an ingenious constitution, their geographical isolation from potential rivals, and a magnificent endowment of natural resources, the Americans managed to… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
“If you want to save seeds from year to year, you need to grow open-pollinated varieties. The words “heirloom” and “open-pollinated” are… — Katie Elzer-Peters Copy Share Image
“Just as a state's police swear to prevent and punish murder, so the signers of the Genocide Convention [in 1948] swore to… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
“What are the things that make adults depressed? The master list is too comprehensive to quantify (plane crashes, unemployment, killer bees, impotence,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Ruth wiped her eyes. Successful at a price? Forgiven but damaged? She wished so much more for her baby sister.” — Sarah Sundin Copy Share Image
Americans, we passionately believe, are a humane people. We showed that in restoring wounded economies abroad after World War II, even those… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
It is important that we honor and remember the sacrifices of countless families in the mobilization to defeat fascism during World War… — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
We've seen the weakest economic recovery since World War II, and massive levels of inequality and debt. — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65… — Naoto Kan Copy Share Image
People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people… — Leonard Slatkin Copy Share Image
More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I,… — Aaron Huey Copy Share Image
I was a mess-up in school, a big mess-up. I was into history and English, because there were always stories, like 'Dracula'… — Barry Keoghan Copy Share Image
We can have a new vision, one even greater than the system they gave us after World War II. Everyone can pursue… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
The international rules-based order in the wake of World War II is the order that has ensured prosperity and security now for… — Mark Esper Copy Share Image
“No thoughts had I of anything, Or at least that's what I thought; I even thought I couldn't think, But now I… — Christopher Miller Copy Share Image
When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it… — Don Kardong Copy Share Image
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone. — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the… — Roger Hilsman Copy Share Image
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