The result of this anti-classical revolution you had just before World War I was that today, almost all the economic growth in… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia has said that if the US-led coalition against Daesh is prepared to engage in ground operations, we will be prepared… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my grandfather had bought just before World War II… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
Long before there was discrimination against blacks, there was discrimination against white southerners. When large numbers of these country people moved north… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
During World War I the Canadians were the shock troops. In many historical cases, Canadians have been very proficient at killing, and… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
There is a myth that the New Deal programs on their own pulled the US out of the Great Depression and created… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
During World War II, Joseph Stalin was once asked by an American writer, according to Professor Dean Russell, how he could justify… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“The man with the Charlie Chaplin mustache, who had been a down-and-out tramp in Vienna in his youth, an unknown soldier of… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
“How could sixty-two million people vote for someone they heard on tape bragging about repeated sexual assault? How could he attack women,… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
The Second World War ended with a radicalization of the population in the United States and everywhere else, and called for all… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Four days before the declaration of World War II, on August 27, 1939, the test pilot van Chaim flew the first jet… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
“Socially, politically, economically, militarily, culturally, racially, sexually, demographically, even mythologically, World War II was the crucible that forged modern America. It was… — Haynes Johnson Copy Share Image
Fifty years would seem to be time enough to prepare a definitive history of the Second World War. In an age of… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
Acting on the theory that sometimes luck is better than work, I randomly called several people named Dattilo in Kentucky. All were… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
Men's magazines in the period immediately after World War II were almost all outdoor-oriented. They were connected to some extent in the… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Now, 'high-intensity conflict' is a fancy word for saying tanks on tanks, aircraft shooting each other out of the sky, a great… — Mark Esper Copy Share Image
I will be remembered when I'm in heaven. People won't remember my name, but they will know the photographer who did that… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
Kennedy was trying to keep us out of war. I was trying to help him keep us out of war. And General… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
“I want you to know that what we record here today may be the last events witnessed by any inhabitants on our… — Kenneth S. Murray Copy Share Image
Once conscription was introduced during the First World War, and once Britain's wars ceased being confined to the empire or to continental… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“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
“Victory gave us such insane delusions of grandeur that we helped start a world war we hadn’t a chance of winning. But… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its… — Fredric Jameson 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
What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
“Another steganographic system was still in use in the 20th century: Aeneas suggested pricking holes in a book or other document above… — David Kahn 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
More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the… — Carol Vorderman 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
I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't… — Abbey Lincoln 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
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
