#world war ii

It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#end #germany #go #ii #months

I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#approach #better #capitalist #century #challenges

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#happened #ii #lot #sense #shaped

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#fully #ii #never #our #our world

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#actions #always #bear #before #cause

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#band #first #had #i #ii

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now. ↗

— James Lovelock

#could #country #every #ii #just

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#bill #bought #enlisted #got #home

I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

#generation #great #greatest #greatest generation #had

Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened, surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective. ↗

— David Bruce

#believe #courses #effective #enlightened #extremely