My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with… — Julie Salamon Copy Share Image
The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The ICRC did not see Nazi Germany for what it was. Instead, the organization maintained the illusion that the Third Reich was… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier… — Walter Kohn Copy Share Image
By my count, of the more than 600 English-language World War II movies made since 1940, only four have even acknowledged the… — Stephen Hunter 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
“In April 1967, Johnson had dispatched General Creighton Abrams to Vietnam as Westy’s deputy. Abrams, a famous tank commander in World War… — Mark Bowden 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
“The appalling destruction and misery of this war mount hourly: destruction of what should be (indeed it is) the common wealth of… — J.R.R. Tolkien 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
Because the US has control of the sea. Because the US has built up its wealth. Because the US is the only… — George Friedman 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
“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
“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 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
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
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
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
“Were there atheists in foxholes during World War II? Of course, as can be verified by my dogtags . . . A… — Warren Allen Smith Copy Share Image
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
I'm an immigrant to the U.S., and I've constantly been thinking about America both from the inside and from the outside. And… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Not long after I was married, World War II began. My husband John volunteered for the Navy and was sent to Pensacola… — Frances Hesselbein Copy Share Image
“Are you still as angry as you used to be?' Julia, the World War II resistance fighter, asked Lillian Hellman in the… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
“After the Second World War, San Francisco was the main point of re-entry for sailors returning from the Pacific. Out at sea,… — Jeffrey Eugenides 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
[My father ] came home from World War II and he voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower. He was pretty thoughtful about those things,… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
But let there be no misunderstanding. The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World… — Jim Bunning Copy Share Image
“Let me quote once more from Tolkien’s lecture, which he delivered a few months before the fantasy-besotted Nazis started World War II.… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
When I was a young boy, during the aftermath of World War II, Germany was broken and in ruins. Many people were… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Sweden’s position of neutrality during World War II put the country in the position of not defending its neighbors against German invasion.… — Christina Johansson Robinowitz Copy Share Image
You read in any war stories - World War II, whatever - that there are many, many heroes. There are the main… — Dave Filoni Copy Share Image
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
Wars of necessity are essentially unavoidable. They involve the most important national interests, a lack of promising alternatives to the use of… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image