British empire Quote by Oliver Stone

The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war…

— Jeffrey Sachs

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's…

— W. Averell Harriman

At the end of the Cold War, the prevailing view in Washington was that the U.S. was strong, and Russia was weak and did…

— Bill Bradley

It fell to President Harry Truman to contain Soviet expansionism. He built America's first peacetime alliances, starting in Western Europe, then in Asia.

— Antony Blinken

In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, everyone in America assumed that there would be wars to follow - wars over…

— Ben Domenech

The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.

— Ian Bremmer

If Roosevelt didn't have World War II, he never would have had a third term.

— Robert Dallek

Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to…

— Vladimir Putin

Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The United States, working closely with the United Kingdom and others, established the liberal world order in the wake of World War II. The…

— Richard N. Haass

We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate…

— Anonymous