We are living in a demented world. And we know it. It would not come as a surprise to anyone if tomorrow… — Johan Huizinga 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
I wrote about World War II because I didn't understand it. I think that's the reason that historians are drawn to any… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
World War II affected the male population in a very detrimental way. They were happy to be home, happy to be alive,… — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
“People are very quick to ridicule others for showing fear. But we rarely know the secret springboards behind human action. The man… — Max Allan Collins 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
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
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
“In Paris, I found myself surrounded by Germans; they were all over the place. They played music, and people would go and… — Pearl Witherington Cornioley Copy Share Image
China is ruthlessly pragmatic. It supports North Korea for its own selfish interests. And I believe that China no longer considers us… — Fareed Zakaria 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
“Had I made the right decision to give up law school—the “safe” choice—to pursue my passion—a career in broadcast journalism? Would I… — Carmine Gallo Copy Share Image
“I came to see soldiers as men willing to lay down their lives for the sake of others. They fight for themselves… — Marcus Brotherton Copy Share Image
There's been a coup, have you heard? It's the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They're the ones… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“The Everlasting Staircase" Jeffrey McDaniel When the call came, saying twenty-four hours to live, my first thought was: can't she postpone her… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
“I read Tom Brokaw’s book The Greatest Generation. This book celebrates the virtues of the generation that grew up between the two… — Dinesh D'Souza 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
After World War II, American leaders were, in Dean Acheson's words, 'present at the creation' of a global order. Now at the… — John J. Sweeney 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
Some societies are also more optimistic than others: the U.S. and Australia are my two picks Tell a European you think there’s… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Every time you go to an airport and get on a plane, you are basically taking advantage of the work that was… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“The dilemma facing Hitler in 1923 was how to carry out a coup d'etat which could only hope to succeed with the… — John Strawson Copy Share Image
Men didn't like to empty bedpans, so we made women nurses. Then men didn't like to do the administrative stuff, so women… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
If the West Point class of 1915 is called 'the class the stars fell on' for the number of World War II… — Florence King Copy Share Image
We really have to work hard to remind people even though this is far away, that's it's probably the most generous thing… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called 'Why We Fight' that explored America's reasons for entering the… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World… — Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr Copy Share Image
We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
So if we announce we're going to have a no-fly zone, and others have said this. Hillary Clinton is also for it.… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I think war and armed conflict is always the last of all the options you have on the table. I think you… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
What happened in World War II was what happened in war generally, and that was whatever the initiating cause, and however clear… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
