Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today! — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“When you are singled out for torture because of your faith, can religion still be a beacon?” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Distressing to be hated because of lies, isn't it." (Mirella) "Especially when there are so many legitimate reasons to be hated." (Schramm)” — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“All the nut eaters and food faddists I have ever known, died early after a long period of senile decay - Winston… — Stuart Finlay Copy Share Image
“Make government the herder of the flock, and the herder will cull the undesirable sheep.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
“If seeing her an hour before her last Weak cough into all blackness I could yet Be held by chalk-white walls -… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
My father came here from Italy as a young boy, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in WWII, and went to Harvard… — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
“The inescapable truth... is that, within a miraculously short period of five years, your Government reduced this country from a position of… — Robert Boothby Copy Share Image
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“I knew why earlier generations once believed that the sun circled the earth. Because, in our limited imaginations, that is how we… — Suzanne Anderson Copy Share Image
“Wonderful?" wrote J.O. Young in his diary. "To stand cheering, crying, waving your hat and acting like a damn fool in general.… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“One day, I noticed that my father’s uniform had changed from a smart, light green colour with silver edging on the shoulder… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
An era that I specifically like is sort of late 50's, early 60's. I guess mid 50's too. I like these types… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“At this period, too, Leningraders resorted to their most desperate food substitutes, scraping dried glue from the underside of wallpaper and boiling… — Anna Reid Copy Share Image
A friend of ours said if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after WWII,… — Zack de la Rocha 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
“The British air force desperately needed planes for their military, and the US had lots of planes but couldn’t sell them to… — Bill O'Neill Copy Share Image
The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“Or, obversely, he might kill a man himself. It would be a question of throwing up his rifle, pressing the trigger, and… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“In October 1941, Mahilue became teh first substantial city in occupied Soviet Belarus where almost all Jews were killed. A German (Austrian)… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“I am a priest, but in this war I have been a soldier, and a soldier who has not surrendered. For I… — Etta Shiber Copy Share Image
“I do recall hearing a conversation in our home in Strausberg, between my mother and my father, where my mother sounded very… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
For the three decades after WWII, incomes grew at about 3 percent a year for people up and down the income ladder,… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
“The dangers of the sea should always take precedence over the violence of the enemy” — Ben Bryant Copy Share Image
Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“I heard people talking about what this Red Army did to any Germans they captured, and this only added to my fears.” — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“* *Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.*Don’t imagine that for years on end you can make… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Were there atheists in foxholes during World War II? Of course, as can be verified by my dogtags . . . A… — Warren Allen Smith Copy Share Image
“Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to… — Clare Mulley Copy Share Image
If you look back historically at the post-WWII period on average, if you get a 100-basis-point increase in Fed funds, the spillover… — Gary Shilling Copy Share Image
“ Good had defeated evil, people proclaimed, a justification for atrocities best left forgotten. They would cling to this oversimplified truth while… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
“...she had discovered within herself the unlikely gift for functioning with equilibrium and efficiency inside a full-blown, unending nightmare. [A Red Cross… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
“If we do not laugh, we will cry. Crying will only make us hotter and sweatier. We Jews like to joke about… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families,… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
“I hope that in the final settlement of the war, you insist that the Germans retain Lorraine, because I can imagine no… — George S. Patton Jr Copy Share Image
“Are there, as science fiction and Gnostic speculation imply, different species of time in the same world, 'good time' and enveloping folds… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“Simon shook his head. ‘The Nazis in Germany…the Japanese here in Shanghai…Treating people as less than human because of the shape of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation…” quote by Peter Drucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/51f/peter-drucker-393_america_the-postwar-wwii-gi-bill-of-rights-and-t_1788823.jpg)
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