#world war ii

Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood. ↗

— R. W. Apple, Jr.

#films #fought #generation #global #his

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy. ↗

— Joe Baca

#fight #holds #ii #learned #monopoly

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

No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#china #civil #civil rights #depression #directions

We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#any #bullets #deficit #federal #followed

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#had #ii #impact #important #technology

The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country. ↗

— Howard Fineman

#came #consensus #country #dominance #gained

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years. ↗

— Ken Follett

#biggest #continue #drama #ever #evil

Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#ii #nine #pilot #stand #war

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#because #cows #during #even #grew