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Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism. — Evan Osnos

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes. — Ernst Zundel

We were such a part of everybody's life in the Second World War. We represented something overseas and at home - a sort of security. — Patty Andrews

I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at it. — Alexander Haig

The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history. — Bob Crow

The Second World War wasn't bad provided you were with nice people. — Evelyn Waugh

Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees. — Christopher Heyerdahl

Two simple ways to win a war against the world:
First, find the faults within;
Second, there is no war. — Kunal Narayan Uniyal

For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific. — Gore Vidal

In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past. — Adam Michnik

The one thing that I'm most proud of, during the Second World War, I worked on airplanes in a defense plant. — Ruth Duccini

How could a society produce such masters and such monsters? — Meg Wiviott

American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world. — Elliott Abrams

I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea. — Michael Apted

the story of these men of the Second World War is another — Nathan M. Greenfield

To those who don't know the historical truth, I would like to say today, Poland was not an aggressor but a victim during the Second World War. — Ewa Kopacz

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz. — Harold Pinter

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing. — Ridley Scott

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War. — Ray Bradbury

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school. — Lionel Blue

The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War. — Alan Greenspan

She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it. — Clare Mulley

Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different. — Antony Beevor

THE STORM OF WAR A NEW HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR — Andrew Roberts

Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities. — Phil Kaye

This unprecedented crisis, which is without doubt the worst since the second world war, is not over. — Giorgio Napolitano

The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War. — Douglas Hurd

The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think. — Craig Ferguson

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win. — Robert A. Heinlein

The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians. — Traian Basescu

When a German soldier is running at you, there's no point quoting Virgil at him, you're better off kicking a football in his face. — Cesca Major

The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War. — Iain Duncan Smith

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth. — Paul Johnson

I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone. — Ernst Zundel

Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know. — Ken Livingstone

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed. — Patrick Macnee

In wartime, everyone's birthday turns into a commemoration of something so sad. — Danny M. Cohen

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War. — Benedict Cumberbatch

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder. — Jan Karon

The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq. — Robert Fisk

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A.S. Byatt

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country. — Antonio Tabucchi

Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend. — George Carlin

In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country. — Yoko Ono

I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia. — Jeremy Irvine

We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War. — Ian Hart

Look at me, here I am. Hitler is nothing but ashes. — Annette Libeskind Berkovits

After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used. — Naoto Kan

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War. — Noam Chomsky

As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs. — Stephen Kinzer

We can say that Japan is the only country that calls into question the outcome of the Second World War; no one else does. — Sergei Lavrov

A film centered around the Second World War with a predominantly white cast would not have the pressure on it that 'Red Tails' has. — David Oyelowo

My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll. — Georgie Fame

Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people. — Kim Campbell

In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining. — Noam Chomsky

Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature was. — William Golding

The U.S. dropped more high explosives on Vietnam than the Allies used on Germany and Japan together in the Second World War. — Nick Davies