Being an American is life-threatening. For various reasons, men and women here don't live as long as men and women in about… — Richard Cohen 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
Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino'… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
Most US presidents since World War II have led military actions without a declaration of war by Congress, though most, if not… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Just as we responded following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and just as an earlier generation rallied in a united front… — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
“As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
“Queenie, herself again, took hold of Maddie’s hand and squeezed it tightly. She walked all the way back across the airfield without… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II.… — Steven Spielberg 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
“Forget bringing the troops home from Iraq. We need to get the troops home from World War II. Can anybody tell me… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“I celebrate ideals of individual excellence, self-reliance, and personal responsibility… But rugged individualism alone did not get us to the moon. It… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Although humans have existed on this planet for perhaps 2 million years, the rapid climb to modern civilization within the last 200… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Surely the Board knows what democracy is. It is the line that forms on the right. It is the don’t in Don’t… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“It took just over 15 years to recover the money invested at the 1929 peak, following a crash far worse than Smith… — Jeremy J. Siegel Copy Share Image
If someone is willing to reconsider the results of World War II, let us discuss this. But then we will have to… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I had read a lot of books on World War II, but I didn't know that downed airmen had hiked over the… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“It was like being born in Germany after World War II, being from Japan after Pearl Harbor, or America after Hiroshima. History… — Kami Garcia 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
Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we… — Ken Mehlman Copy Share Image
Japan rose from the ashes of World War II as a 'trading state,' the model for export-led growth. It is not clear… — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World… — David Salle Copy Share Image
“A church leader studied the history of architecture in New Zealand and found that before World War II, homes were built with… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two… — Celine Buckens Copy Share Image
I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really… — Bjork Copy Share Image
Nobody's interests are served by what's happening in Syria today. It's a catastrophe. It's the worst human catastrophe since World War II.… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen seem to have no respect for the institutions that were created after World War… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Air superiority, which the United States has taken for granted since World War II, is no longer assured. And, without control of… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
“The fifty-three-year-old former Eagle Scout from South Carolina didn’t drink, smoke, or swear; the most colorful expletive in his vocabulary was “dad… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
“It is easy to sanctify policies or identities by the deaths of victims. It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“For example, the people of Mount Lebanon were identified as “Syrians” until well into the 1940s. In the United States, the ethnic… — Louis Farshee Copy Share Image
I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
My grandmother, Dorothy Walker Bush, worked long, hard hours for the Red Cross during World War II because it was the right… — Neil Bush Copy Share Image
