After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench warfare, German commanders were shaping a… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
We are the people who won the Second World War and saved the world. We went to the moon. We gave the… — Brian Williams Copy Share Image
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a… — Barbara Amiel 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
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
Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
During the Second World War, nobody built any concert halls or theaters. After the war, Lincoln Center was a very brave project… — Hugh Hardy Copy Share Image
“A blanket could be used to teach geography to a sleeping man. Better do it quick, before he wakes up and finds… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“There has been much controversy about the numbers of those imprisoned and killed at various times in the Stalin years, but the… — Archie Brown Copy Share Image
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“Caine, Philip D. Aircraft Down! Evading Capture in WWII Europe. Virginia: Potomac Books, 1997. Champlain, Héléne de. The Secret War of Helene… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“Aomame imagined 1926 Czechoslovakia: The First World War had ended, and the country was freed from the long rule of the Hapsburg… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Most American view World War II nostalgically as the "good war," in which the United States and its allies triumphed over German… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“Another study that winds up in half the textbooks makes the same point, if more subtly. The subjects of the “experiment” were… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Sir Winston Churchill was born into the respected family of the Dukes of Marlborough. His mother Jeanette, was an attractive American-born British… — Captain Hank Bracker Copy Share Image
I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
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This unprecedented crisis, which is without doubt the worst since the second world war, is not over. — Giorgio Napolitano Copy Share Image
I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War. This presents us with great… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“You died in your sleep? Drunk driver? Cancer,huh? World war? Well...yeah those deaths are great and all,but wait till I tell you… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Post World War II America draws a great deal of interest, but the students also seem to know quite a bit about… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working.… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was… — Helmut Schmidt Copy Share Image
I won’t stop fighting to give Nevadans access to affordable health care just because my husband is a doctor, just like I… — Shelley Berkley Copy Share Image
I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, "Never such innocence, before or since,… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
We are all proud of is World War II where we went in, we were decisive, we came to the conclusion that… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
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