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Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.


Patricia Schroeder
Tags: War World Need
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And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen.


Oliver North
Tags: War Never World
The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.
Nick Harkaway
Tags: War Fear World
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I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.


Alastair Reynolds
Tags: War Still Nuclear
The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians.
Traian Basescu
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.
Whittaker Chambers
Tags: Power War World
After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
Naoto Kan
Tags: War People World
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.
Stephen Bayley
Tags: War You World
As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.
Stephen Kinzer
Tags: War World End
During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.
Simon Sinek
Tags: War World Some
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It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.


Noam Chomsky
Tags: War Been Far
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Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time.


Alex Berenson
Tags: Time War Most
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The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.


Pierre Salinger
Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.
Christopher Heyerdahl
Tags: War People Who
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My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.


Jack Scalia
Tags: Family War Every
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In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.


Tariq Ali
Tags: War Some Were
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I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone.


Philippe Perrin
Tags: War Been Then
In times of conflict, our citizens have always been able to rise to the challenge. Maybe no greater example of that ability is found during the onset of World War II.
Chuck Norris
Tags: War Always Been
With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
Anthony Lewis
Tags: War Whole America
One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.
Gerhard Schroder
Tags: War Could Huge
Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to produce the ultra-nationalist military dictatorship of General Pilsudski.
Tariq Ali
Tags: War World Which
As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject.
Ann Rinaldi
Tags: War History Just
Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.
Henry Rollins
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Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.


Stephen M. Walt
Tags: War Our Make
My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli.
Peter Jackson
Tags: War Dad Me
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I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war.


John Edward Christopher Hill
Tags: War Very World
'Into the Blizzard' follows the author as he traces the footsteps of the Newfoundland Regiment during the First World War: where they trained in Scotland, where they fought in Gallipoli and where they died at the Battle of the Somme in France.
Michael Winter
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Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structure of society produced goodwill; and that, therefore, you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. It is possible that I believe something of the same again; but after the war, I did not because I was unable to.
William Golding
Tags: War Society You
Gosh, I think faith is a wonderful thing. And I even think religion's a wonderful thing. I know a lot of people want to say, 'Religion's the only reason that man has had any trouble at all,' but you know what? World War I and World War II were not fought because of religious reasons.
Kelsey Grammer
Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.
Karl Marlantes
Tags: Time War Had
When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.
Lisa Kristine
Tags: War People Think
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War is fear cloaked in courage.


William Westmoreland
Tags: War Fear Courage
The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe.
Linda Chavez
Tags: War History Just
The price of gold was fixed at $35 an ounce in 1934, but by the time the U.S. got through the Korean War, the Vietnam war, with all the associated secular inflation, the price level had gone up nearly three times.
Robert Mundell
Tags: Time War Up
After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and that was true until after World War II. But middle-class white women married less and later.
Rebecca Traister
Tags: Time Women War
The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.
David Grann
Tags: War Sports Like
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Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.


Karl Liebknecht
I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look at a list and see anything that I want, or almost anything, is like a kind of miracle.
Doris Lessing
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Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.
Barbara Boxer
Tags: War Up Made
The Bay of Pigs is one of America's most infamous Cold War blunders, and it has been studied, debated, and dramatized endlessly ever since.
Robert Dallek
Tags: War Been Most