Barack Obama is not Harry Truman, who dropped the A-bomb on Japan to stop World War II. Barack Obama is not John… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
“Though it was undeclared, there was a new world war being waged, where fundamental decency and respect for human rights were under… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“During World War II, a secret apartment in London was maintained by the office of the Special Operations Executive. Within it, operatives… — E.J. Wagner Copy Share Image
The big news is the midterm elections. Last night Republicans picked up a dozen seats in the House to give them their… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
When the Defense Department was established after World War II, a law said that any defense secretary with military experience must have… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
“But even if they could go home it would be difficult for me to tell you what the moral of the story… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
My father had been in the German Diplomatic Service, and although he had been in the United States since World War II… — Hermann Eilts Copy Share Image
Friedrich Engels once said: "Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism." What does "regression into… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Even more ominous ... is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence,… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“There was a time, in fact, I think the time of the first World War, when it could not have been said… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“dramatically, but helium gas was 10 times as expensive. Under these conditions, Dr. Eckener, a pilot whose primary concern was safety and… — John Provan Copy Share Image
“Nuclear weapons have only been used twice, both times in the war against Japan. In each case it was used by the… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“All medieval and classic cultures of the ancient world, including those on which Tolkien modeled his elves, routinely exposed their young and… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
Today, we have a powerful military that serves as a deterrent, but the enemy we have today is not like World War… — Daniel Inouye Copy Share Image
Both grandfathers fought in different wars. My mother's father fought in World War II, and then my father's father fought in Korea.… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
“We’ve already got gays in the military. We always have had. World War Two, the Western Allies had fourteen million men in… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
From the American Revolution right up to the Second World War, the U.S. was more likely to provoke suspicion among members of… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“Honestly, you make one tiny mistake and they hold it over you for the rest of your days!' 'You started World War… — Ashlee Nicole Bye Copy Share Image
In the early hours of 16 December 1944, the Germans launched their last great offensive of the Second World War against weakly… — Saul David Copy Share Image
The latest rule is: you cannot have protectionism - otherwise you will get a world war. Other rules say you cannot have… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
The marketplace for books when I entered the business shortly after World War II consisted of a thousand or so well stocked… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“Woodrow Wilson has just made the decision to take part in World War I. What was he feeling then? Did he know… — Zachary Crosby Copy Share Image
Ever since the Second World War, television signals (as well as FM radio and radar) have served as Homo sapiens' emissaries into… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“Putin has positioned himself as the leader of an authoritarian, xenophobic international movement that wants to expel immigrants, break up the European… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It has to be an actress like Marion Cotillard [in Allied] because there are so many levels to it. It's set in… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Soviet mathematics was particularly good in the second half of the 20th century, basically because of the arms race, because the Soviet… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“I thought about the afterlife and wondered if people shared death stories. If so, i'd have the coolest story ever. You died… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of… — Aleksander Kwasniewski Copy Share Image
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Our biggest art forms are film and television, and there hasn't been a great film about 9/11 yet, nor has there been… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
The pioneer labor historian John Commons was not wrong when he wrote around World War One that exploiting and deepening such tensions… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
“Despite its fascist government Greece entered the Second World War on the Allied side because Italy invaded what it thought was a… — Donny Gluckstein Copy Share Image
Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cash into France and Italy… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
The Kings played out of the Memorial Community Centre, an old wooden barn like you'd see in other Prairie towns. It was… — Barry Trotz Copy Share Image
During World War II, hundreds of thousands of people actually - and among them many African-American - migrated to the Hampton Roads… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
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