American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of… — Colin Ward Copy Share Image
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
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Political scientists after World War II hypothesized that even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
I believe the number is 70% of the world's refugees since World War II have been taken in by the United States.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
My father earned his citizenship by serving in the Army during World War II. He devoted his life to caring for our… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
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When I first went to jail in 1960 with seven classmates trying to use their public library against the backdrop of my… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Democracy takes work. That's the thing we're really finding out, that, you know, in many ways, you know, the past two decades… — David Frum Copy Share Image
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The Second World War had really devastating effects for much of Europe. It really didn't take them very long to reconstruct state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The NATO alliance is not just a transactional relationship, once again. That alliance serves our interests. That alliance has been critical to… — James Franklin Jeffrey Copy Share Image
“The Greatest Generation gets too much credit. Those World War II guys, if they had all the shit we have today, they'd… — Louis C.K Copy Share Image
When it comes to his sons, it would be easy to think that the macho Duke of Edinburgh has most in common… — Ingrid Seward Copy Share Image
The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
A national government using New Deal programs and the massive defense spending beginning with World War II and continuing through the Cold… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
World War II was a historical event, but also a movie genre, and 'Fury' occasionally prints the legend. The rest of it… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
“If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we… — Ken Mehlman Copy Share Image
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
Some of our best and unexpected discoveries have been born out of crises - from the Second World War, for example, came… — Alok Sharma Copy Share Image
If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
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Growing up in the shadow of Johnson Space Center and moving to Texas to welcome our last moon mission home, I wanted… — Pete Olson Copy Share Image
I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I read everything that Tolkien wrote, and also read biographies of him. I was fascinated by his experiences in World War I,… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
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Einstein was attending a music salon in Germany before the second world war, with the violinist S. Suzuki. Two Japanese women played… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We salute our veterans of Pearl Harbor and World War II, whose sacrifices saved democracy during a dark hour. In their memory,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam,… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
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