I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.
Jessica Brown Findlay
WarWorldGrandmotherSheIncredible
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
PeaceWarPrepareHimWhoDesires
All the Baltic countries have been steadfast in support of allies of the United States since they gained their independence following the fall of the Soviet Union and have continued to be supportive in the ongoing war on terror.
John Shimkus
WarSupportIndependenceFallSoviet
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
Noam Chomsky
WarEnvironmentalProblemsSurvival
Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.
Ron Wyden
BestWarRoadBackCircumstances
I played in bombed-out houses and grew up with the ever-present consequences of a lost war and the awareness that my own country had inflicted terrible pain on many nations during the horrific World War II.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
PainWarWorldConsequencesCountry
Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different.
Antony Beevor
MemoriesPerspectiveWarWorldOwn
Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.
Abigail Disney
ExperienceWarPieceCombat
On Putin's order, Russia intervenes in Syria not to fight terrorists but to abet the war crimes of the Assad regime. Russian bombers deliberately target aid workers and hospitals. They threaten Syrian freedom fighters trained by the U.S. They are allied with our enemies in the Middle East and trying to weaken our friendships there.
John McCain
FreedomFightWarTryingTarget
Actually it's a gift as an actor to cover such different parts of history. It's like time travelling, being inside a history book, in the actual locations.
Sebastian Koch
WarParentsAmazingGenerationYear
On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening.
Silvio Berlusconi
WarAmericanGoPresidentWithin
I don't think a lot of the news outlets examine the effect of war on a family.
Luke Macfarlane
FamilyWarThinkNewsEffectLot
It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.
Condoleezza Rice
PeaceWarSecurityResolutionsNow
As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.
John Boyd Orr
WarWorldAirplaneSmallSeenMade
We have a tendency to think of war as this quasi-mystical thing, and that interpretation flattens the experience - by using different perspectives, I wanted to open a place for readers to compare and contrast, to make judgments, to engage.
Phil Klay
ExperienceWarThinkPlaceContrast
Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs.
John Thune
WarEnergySecurityCreateNewOil
John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
WarColdAmericanScholarshipOnly
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald Reagan
HistoryWarBelievePriceCheap
We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.
Dennis Kucinich
WorkSciencePeaceWarWhyEveryday
My father fought in the war, and then he was posted all 'round the world with his job. So I didn't know him very well when I was young.
Anne Reid
FatherJobWarWorldKnowYoung
We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.
Abu Abbas
GoalsWarThoughtShipPlansNever
Yuri's Night is a world celebration for everyone who's interested in a human presence in space - without concern for politics, the Cold War, countries that do and don't have space programs.
Robert Picardo
PoliticsWarSpaceWorldNightCold
The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region during World War I and who, at its close, principally fashioned its peace. It was a peace presaged by the nickname given the region by covetous British leaders in wartime: 'The Great Loot.'
Scott Anderson
GreatPeaceWarEffortWorldMiddle
I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?
Simon Raven
AgeManWarGenerationLookEarly
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