#world war

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

With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that. ↗

— David McCullough

#before #book #certain #does #entire

After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#conflict #cuts #deep #doing #every

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

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. ↗

— Al Gore

#churchill #civilisation #everything #except #fashion

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one. ↗

— Larry Hagman

#been #does #engaged #i #kind

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 feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#back #because #completely #connected #dad

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#carefully #century #dalton #destroyed #during

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future. ↗

— Joe Baca

#changing #commit #course #future #harbor