“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
This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger… — Joseph Stalin 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
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
“Well the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final inconclusive chapter - leaving, alas, everyone the poorer,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
It's very important to understand that World War II is at the base of this new policy. From the 1890s on, the… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“The quarter century following World War II was a ‘golden age’ for most workers and their families…, even for men with a… — Karl Alexander 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
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
The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative,… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“You just got sprung." "Nig Rosewater out there?" Clete asked. "Nig Rosewater hasn't been up at this hour since World War II.” — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will… We must be the great arsenal of democracy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'd say my mother made more of a difference to me than anyone else did. I know that's a conventional and perhaps… — Herb Kelleher 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
