“As he walked...he picked up the holodreams of the suits... _I believe_. A yellow-suited man was flying one World War II plane… — Misha 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
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
“Someday, with the right man in the White House, there will be a Department of Jesus, yes and a Secretary of Jesus.…… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Each summer, as Lake Michigan finally begins to warm, I think of the men of the World War II cruiser Indianapolis and… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
“What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
“Politicians, a moribund labor movement, and the mass media—either cowed or in the service of corporate power—assure the population that the old… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“It was then, after my presentations to thirty-two generals, that I first began to see how similar the approach to leadership problems… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
We know that there were so many Japanese American soldiers in World War II who were fighting in Europe despite the fact… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
What's going on in Syria is the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II. And we are punishing those who are suffering… — Daniel Benjamin Copy Share Image
The three values which men held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism - as a cultural… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I worry more about the marketing that's taken hold since the 70s. The Jazz era, the Swing era, those were huge. Entire… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“The Adoption When Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
History of America, Part I (1776-1966): Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Convention, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, Great Depression, New… — Norman Chad Copy Share Image
I have the manual, and the sad thing is that many of the techniques are exactly the same ones with a few… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
I was born just after the end of World War II, and with my friends in our little suburban backyards in New… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There was an assumption that aerial bombing of civilians in World War II would cause fragile, working-class people to basically have nervous… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Well, that's exactly the wrong attitude. That is not the attitude they had in World War II. You're attitude is that freedom… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“To the guards who walked up and down outside, each car became a single organism which ate and drank and excreted through… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“For these reasons the Vietnam-era army (unlike the armies that had fought in World War II or Korea) consisted disproportionately of the… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“A Quote from Monty's journal in God Must Be Weeping, "I, too, wished to climb the ladder of life and reach the… — J.D. Winston Copy Share Image
The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Behind Trump's promise to 'make America great again' lie many fallacies. The most important fallacy is that America's place in the world… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
A lotta stuff has been written about me that I never said. Stories that were lies. One guy wrote that young as… — Bruno Sammartino Copy Share Image
American soldiers wore khaki uniforms during World War II. Men's khaki trousers became fashionable after the war, as homecoming GI's decided to… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
“On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon the world had ever known. Called the Tsar… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity,… — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
For a long time, way back in the ’30s and ’40s, there were fabulous female roles. Bette Davis and all those people… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
My great uncle Pvt. Tommy Rooney, USMC, was killed on Guam during the Pacific Campaign in World War II. I was named… — Tom Rooney Copy Share Image
As a Polish American, I grew up hearing the phrase 'nothing about us without us.' To Eastern Europeans, the vow is a… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image