Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The battlefields of World War I established the importance of petroleum as an element of national power when the internal combustion machine… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
I mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
“Look, this is helping me out quite a bit, but could you just get to the punishment part? We're at the end… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity… — Jan Peter Balkenende Copy Share Image
I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that. — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
“At the end of World War II, American military policy, digesting the Japanese lessons in China, was to control air and sea… — T.R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody.… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
A lot of my books have been that way. My World War II thriller about Sarin gas [Black Cross] was published two… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
The Kosovars were granted autonomy at the end of World War II, but then aspiring president Milosevic had the autonomy revoked in… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
My dad was a member of the Greatest Generation that achieved victory in World War II. This was the generation that saved… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There's a tendency to locate the cliche of the 'strong woman' exclusively in the present day, as if those many women who… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
“Within Germany, unrest fermented after Germany lost World War I, and the German people, including the workers and the military, detested the… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
“The inventor of GDP cautioned against including in its calculation expenditure for the military, advertising, and the financial sector,33 but his advice… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“She told him the origins of the “buck dance,” when “white people would come up and say ‘N____r, dance’, and then start… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“What started as a normal conversation quickly spiraled out of hand, and Neil had no idea how they went from the construction… — Nora Sakavic Copy Share Image
I want a world without war. War never works it just kills. I want my children to never have to have a… — Ana Martin Copy Share Image
“I guess that isn't the right word," she said. She was used to apologizing for her use of language. She had been… — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr Copy Share Image
“During World War II, when combat rations were tinned, meat hashes were a common entrée because they worked well with the filling… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Ukippers are the kinds of fools who haven't noticed they're sleep-walking towards fascism. Many UKIP candidates are of the age when their… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
When I first saw California, it was extraordinary. Because I came from old, black, dark England, still recovering from World War II.… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not… — Traian Basescu Copy Share Image
I don't know what weapons will be used in World War III, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
My mother, who was in the Resistance in the Second World War, passed away at 96, and it was like she was… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others.… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
I did not believe in the war. I thought it was wrong to go into any war. And I got to the… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Even the building of a second British empire in the 19th century never fully healed the wound of losing America, and the… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee… — Mike Rogers Copy Share Image
Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I. — Ivica Dacic Copy Share Image
My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll. — Georgie Fame Copy Share Image
“My father was a policeman who fought in World War II. When he talked about 'journalists,' he meant Ernie Pyle. As far… — Steven L. Kent Copy Share Image
When a guy gets jealous, it's kinda cute. But when a girl gets jealous.. World War II is about to start. — Jraga Overstreet Copy Share Image
![“A lot of my books have been that way. My World War II thriller about Sarin gas [Black Cross] was published two months before the Sarin attack in the Japanese subway. There are very weird coincidences out there. And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write, because of my…” quote by Greg Iles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d19/greg-iles-4609_black_a-lot-of-my-books-have-been-that-way-my_1454133.png)
![“Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exempt[ion]...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.” quote by Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/844/thomas-sowell-247_battle_benedict-arnold-was-a-war-hero-wounded-i_1784524.jpg)
