In America, we then made a commitment, particularly after World War II with the GI Bill, to massively expand our commitment to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us… — Ronald Reagan 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
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After World War II, there were a lot of pension funds in Europe that were fully funded, but they were pressured to… — Edward C. Prescott 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
“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
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I was in charge of price controls in World War II and had a ceiling on overall prices. Everybody who was subject… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The Green New Deal we are proposing will be similar in scale to the mobilization efforts seen in World War II or… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 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
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
I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
Racial inequity in how the immense benefits of the original G.I. Bill were disbursed are well-documented, and we've all seen how these… — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were… — Bjork Copy Share Image
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“During the Allied invasion of World War II, hundreds of life-like rubber dummy paratroopers were dropped into the French countryside. These distractions… — Aaron R. Yilmaz Copy Share Image
[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
“In my generation we did a lot of pleasure chasing—we, the generation responsible for today’s twenty-year-olds and thirty-year-olds and forty-year-olds. Before they… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
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