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  • Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

    War   Fighting   Two  
    "Noam Chomsky on Venezuela - the transcript". Interview with Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2011.
  • Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank.

    Real   War   Ideas  
    Philip K. Dick (2011). “VALIS”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • What we accomplished during World War Two is just amazing. We turned our country upside down. African Americans were demanding to be given combat missions. 10% of Americans moved in order to relocate for a war job. We as a country accomplished this heroic, nearly miraculous thing, and we have this legacy of policies and agency - how did they do it? How did they fund it? How did they organize it? It is actually an example that we can borrow from very productively to guide us.

    Country   Jobs   War  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.

    War   World   Individual  
    Quoted in the Enciclopedia Italiana.
  • I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

    Peace   War   Hate  
    Speech in Ottawa on January 10, 1946. "Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches". Book edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels, 1948.
  • It may come as a surprise but I also really started to get into history while I was at school. I found the projects about World War Two fascinating - perhaps when I get the time again, I could pick up where I left off.

    War   School   Two  
    Source: www.bbc.co.uk
  • As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

    War   Long   Sovereign  
    Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.45, Open Road Media
  • All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

    Funny   War   Humor  
  • World War Two was a world war in space. It spread from Europe to Japan, to the Soviet Union, etc. World War Two was quite different from World War One which was geographically limited to Europe. But in the case of the Gulf War, we are dealing with a war which is extremely local in space, but global in time, since it is the first 'live' war.

    War   Europe   Two  
    Source: ctheory.net
  • In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

    "Marlborough; his life and times".
  • Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

    Address to joint meeting of Congress, 19 Apr. 1951
  • The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!

    War   World   Intention  
    Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”
  • I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

    Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller
  • We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of Freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.

    "The Papers of George Catlett Marshall" by the George C. Marshall Foundation, Vol. 3, 1991.
  • A particular type of film emerged from World War Two, with the Italian neorealist school. It was perfectly right for its time, which was as exceptional as the reality around us. Our major interest focused on that and on how we could relate to it. Later, when the situation normalized and post-war life returned to what it had been in peacetime, it became important to see the intimate, interior consequences of all that had happened.

    War   School   Reality  
    Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com
  • I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough.

    Children   War   Two  
    "This much I know". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2002.
  • It was a distortion, a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience, Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achieve.

    War   Order   Two  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.

    War   People   World  
  • If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with no winners, and there's another block in World War Two. And then it seems like there's another world war.

    Block   War   Two  
    Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.
  • If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice.

    War   Fighting   Two  
  • I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.

    War   Reading   Kids  
    "A Little Learning" by Jeffrey Goldberg, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2005.
  • Germany must either be a world power or there will be no Germany

    War   Germany   World  
  • Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

  • I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died...every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.

    Beach   War   Hero  
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