For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although the United States lost a quarter of a million men and women, civilians and soldiers, in World War II, that's considerably… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The trouble with the First World War, for example, is that people think war was inevitable, but I don't agree. If you… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
As [John] Tolkien himself said, the story [Lord of the Ring ] is not allegorical. He said so when people tried to… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Mehmet Ertegun died in 1944. President Roosevelt sent his body back to Turkey on the U.S.S. Missouri. Mehmet Ertegun and President Roosevelt… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
As president, I will ramp up enforcement of trade rules by appointing a new chief trade prosecutor and tripling the number of… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
President Bush paid homage Wednesday to World War II veterans of Normandy at the D-Day Memorial. Later that night, his twin daughters… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
“I believe that there are four institutions in American history that have shaped our approach to race and justice but remain poorly… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
“Eventually Frances was credited with writing 325 scripts covering every conceivable genre. She also directed and produced half a dozen films, was… — Cari Beauchamp Copy Share Image
“Lieutenant Linh said, “Thank you for this valuable information, it gives us an opportunity to take counter-measures to nullify the American attack!… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“After the United States entered World War I, Southern landowners had a new means of ensuring their laborers remained on plantations—the threat… — Adrienne Berard Copy Share Image
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II. After all, where else in… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“The Second World War created the need for a new generation of female heroes. Where could these women look for role models?… — Kathryn J. Atwood Copy Share Image
Just as the people who lived through the Second World War thought different things on different days, I think everybody who goes… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Yugoslavia served as a reminder that the lessons of World War Two were only partially learned. There's a great line someone wrote… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The use of torture on suspected terrorists after Sept. 11 has already earned a place in American history's hall of shame, alongside… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
“In his mind World War III represents the final self-destruction and imbalance of an asymmetric world, the last suicidal spasm of the… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Warsaw's historic heart was deliberately almost entirely destroyed towards the end of the Second World War by the German occupying troops. After… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
We know that from the GI Bill after the Second World War, where Congress found that for every dollar we put in… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
America's exceptional nature confers upon us responsibilities. We are not exceptional because we say so; we are exceptional because, over and over,… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The post-Second World War simple system of social democracy and organized labour has fragmented massively, but just because people aren't organized in… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that.… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
What Stieg Larsson was up to - it was the Swedish guilt over World War II. All of our neighbors had the… — Michael Nyqvist Copy Share Image
During World War II, law-abiding Japanese-American citizens were herded into remote internment camps, losing their jobs, businesses and social standing, while an… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets,… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
It became obvious to me that the generation who changed the world were my parents' generation, and not only in terms of… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
I was in charge of price controls in World War II and had a ceiling on overall prices. Everybody who was subject… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The Caucus I joined in 1953 had as many Boer War veterans as men who had seen active service in World War… — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
“constant companions throughout the project: Stanley Weintraub’s A Stillness Heard Round the World, A. J. P. Taylor’s The First World War, John… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
President George H.W. Bush was a patriot who served our country in World War II, lead the CIA, an Ambassador to the… — Mike Braun Copy Share Image
“People are very quick to ridicule others for showing fear. But we rarely know the secret springboards behind human action. The man… — Max Allan Collins Copy Share Image
My family suffered very major losses during the Second World War, that's true. In my father's family, there were five brothers. I… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
In Japan, after having lost World War II, the hierarchy that used to exist in the society, from the rich to the… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
If you walk into the front hallway of the CIA, you will see, on your left, a statue of William 'Wild Bill'… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
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