This system, built on free markets, free trade and free peoples and American protection, that's what got us from the end of… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
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We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in… — George Wald Copy Share Image
The thing about World War II is that everyone knows about the concentration camps in Europe - in Nazi Germany and Poland… — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
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World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The two sides that fought in World War I lived in the same century but in different places. The same is true… — Haim Harari Copy Share Image
“Most dramatically, the Bridge served as an agonizing or exhilarating psychological symbol for the more than 1.2 million servicemen and women who… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
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“As an Asian American woman within black radical circles, Grace surely was anomalous, but this raised no significant concerns or barriers to… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“But it is not so simple as to merely blame the Communists for Poland's state of denial (of World War II atrocities… — Zofia Zaks Copy Share Image
“Two large trials of antioxidants were set up after Peto’s paper (which rather gives the lie to nutritionists’ claims that vitamins are… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
“Most people know that 30 to 40 percent of the world's Jews were killed during World War II, but not that 80… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Our neighbor, Hugo du Toit, was a very handsome Afrikaner, who, with his two sisters, was a close friend of Louis Botha,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed: an… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
After World War II, it seemed that humanity understood something, and nothing like that would happen again. Humanity has understood nothing. Religious,… — Irena Sendler Copy Share Image
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The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
We were the daughters of the post-World War II American dream, the daughters of those idealized fifties sitcom families in which father… — Anne Taylor Fleming Copy Share Image
“Then again, it didn’t take me long in the world of corporate law to realize that truth is an afterthought in court.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My father Ted fought in North Africa, Italy, and Germany during World War II. My grandfather survived the horrors of the trenches… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
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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
“Virtually every news source lists the greater number of Palestinians killed in Arab-Israeli wars in order to depict the Israelis as guilty… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
What Secretary Ash Carter is looking at is the constant pressure that Russia's putting on our European allies. The way that Russia… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Acting on the theory that sometimes luck is better than work, I randomly called several people named Dattilo in Kentucky. All were… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
Men's magazines in the period immediately after World War II were almost all outdoor-oriented. They were connected to some extent in the… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Now, 'high-intensity conflict' is a fancy word for saying tanks on tanks, aircraft shooting each other out of the sky, a great… — Mark Esper Copy Share Image
The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my grandfather had bought just before World War II… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
Long before there was discrimination against blacks, there was discrimination against white southerners. When large numbers of these country people moved north… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia has said that if the US-led coalition against Daesh is prepared to engage in ground operations, we will be prepared… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
The truth is that people - many people are concerned about this, but this is not the first time in America this… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
After World War II the Republicans - the Wall Street crowd - were very worried about a depression coming back. They hated… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
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