World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam. — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
In World War II all these countries were completely against each other, complete opposite. Now we're getting them all together, through the… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two… — Celine Buckens Copy Share Image
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the… — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
In reality, at the end of World War II, America imposed democracy at the point of a bayonet on Japan and Germany,… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
When I graduated from school, World War II was still going on. At the time, my eldest sister, Nancy, was working in… — Polly Allen Mellen Copy Share Image
If you will remember history correctly, even the Second World War was perpetrated by a stateless actor, by murdering the Prince Rudolf,… — Asif Ali Zardari Copy Share Image
If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at… — Laura Wade Copy Share Image
“At the time i didn't realize why there was so much Klan activity, but later I learned that it was because African-American… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
The Cern laboratory in Geneva was set up in 1955 to bring together European scientists who wished to pursue research into the… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
However, there is a fundamental difference between the issue related to Japan's history and our negotiations with China. What is it all… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated… — Sathnam Sanghera Copy Share Image
Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural… In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Thought Experiment: You are a native of New York City, you live in New York, work in New York, travel about the… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
If you look back to the anti-intervention movements, what were they? Let's take the Vietnam War - the biggest crime since the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Germany is not the only country that one could call post-heroic. But there is an additional aspect for Germany when it comes… — Heinrich August Winkler Copy Share Image
“As I tried to doze, the incident on the piazzetta, lost somewhere amid the Piave war memorial and our ride up the… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
The one thing that I'm most proud of, during the Second World War, I worked on airplanes in a defense plant. — Ruth Duccini Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism,… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Western Europe has been redefining the nation state since 1945 when it formed the European Union following World War II. — Pete Hoekstra Copy Share Image
What saved the economy, and the New Deal, was the enormous public works project known as World War II, which finally provided… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
For children of my generation, anime was an escape from Japan's loser complex following World War II. Anime wasn't foreign. It was… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
“with the centenary of 1914 rapidly approaching it is high time to stop regarding the first world war as current affairs and… — Gary Sheffield Copy Share Image
I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated,… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war. — Sven-Goran Eriksson Copy Share Image
The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse. — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image