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
“In the eleven months preceding the outbreak of World War II, 211 treaties of peace were signed. Were these treaties of peace… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The Holocaust is as real a historical event as World War II itself and not to be challenged. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods. They were out to… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
“I was mentally prepared to sustain serious injury or death, but before that day I never contemplated the reality of being captured… — Omanson, Oliver Copy Share Image
Coming into World War II, we were seen as a conquering hero for beleaguered people, we are now seen as invader, an… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“I can’t say enough about the wonderful people I met in Cuba and feel saddened that they are stuck in the 50’s… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“Lurking at the foundations of otaku culture is the complex yearning to produce a pseudo Japan once again from American-made material, after… — Hiroki Azuma Copy Share Image
I am encyclopaedic on World War II. My dad took me to D-Day beaches when I was a kid. I was there… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
I certainly felt I had an idea of World War II, and it's probably the idea that many people share: there was… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Is it morally acceptable to murder one hundred innocent people in the process of catching a serial killer who has murdered ten… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“During World War II, when combat rations were tinned, meat hashes were a common entrée because they worked well with the filling… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individualism and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's. — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“Shina is the Japanese appellation for China most commonly used during the first half of the twentieth century. After World War II… — Stefan Tanaka Copy Share Image
The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the… — Anne O'Hare McCormick Copy Share Image
I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II. — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd! — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at… — David Frum 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
During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their contributions in… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
