Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were… — Bjork Copy Share Image
Starting from the ruins of the Second World War, we - all Europeans said, after centuries of fighting each other, we're going… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given… — Art Linkletter Copy Share Image
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
I don't feel I was 'born American,' but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II, and… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Ukraine and Israel have long-standing historical ties. Our nations have together experienced all the tragedies in recent history - the Holodomor and… — Volodymyr Zelensky Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“During the Allied invasion of World War II, hundreds of life-like rubber dummy paratroopers were dropped into the French countryside. These distractions… — Aaron R. Yilmaz Copy Share Image
“After World War II, the Italians made tremendous efforts to rebuild their country’s industry and economy. During the 1950s and ‘60s, with… — Marilyn Tolhurst Copy Share Image
“After World War Two, the Australian army had been re-organised into its peace-time army status. The army was primarily three battalions which… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“We will never know all there is to know about Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. No single story can relate… — Wendy Lower Copy Share Image
“Dr. Benjamin Spock, who worked in a veterans’ hospital dealing with emotional illnesses during World War II, commented at the time that… — Ann Rule Copy Share Image
“Society reaps what it sows in the way it nurtures its children, because stress sculpts the brain to exhibit several antisocial behaviors.… — Margot Sunderland Copy Share Image
“The country was passing through turbulent times. British Raj was on its last legs. The World War had sucked the juice out… — Manjit Sachdeva Copy Share Image
“I had the mistaken idea, based on what happened in World War I, that we would stay out of the war, and… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
Chinese Communist Party leaders are students of history, and they recognize America's arsenal of democracy all but ensured America's triumph in the… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
“And in a more general context, after World War I, many air force leaders had come to see civilians as legitimate targets,… — Geoffrey Jensen Copy Share Image
You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked,… — James Cagney Copy Share Image
In so many ways, World War II was one of the lowest lows imaginable, yet some of my most treasured memories come… — Vera Lynn Copy Share Image
I was born in Allied-controlled Pola. At the end of World War II, the victorious wartime Allied powers negotiated the details of… — Lidia Bastianich Copy Share Image
Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
...maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Americans who have parents raised during the Great Depression or World War II understand how drastically things have changed on the home… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
To be sure, the United States will be eternally proud of our civilian leaders and the men and women of our armed… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
Our country undergoes periodic episodes of extreme intolerance and fear of foreigners, refugees in particular. Not only were people of Japanese descent… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
I don't remember men in our village after World War II: during the war, one out of four Belarusians perished, either fighting… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
During World War II, the Nazis put their victims into gas chambers and then incinerated them in ovens. While the Nazis took… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Every honor is appropriate for the courageous Americans who made the supreme sacrifice for our Nation at Pearl Harbor and in the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In 1940, President Roosevelt called on American industry to become the 'great arsenal of democracy.' Automotive manufacturers in Michigan responded and converted… — Sander Levin Copy Share Image
How many Americans, for example, are aware of the fact that U.S. planes dropped on the Korean peninsula more bombs - 635,000… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
If I'd been living in Berlin in 1933-34, could I possibly have foreseen the Holocaust and all the corollary horrors of World… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian… — Georg Solti Copy Share Image
Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
