When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don't realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It's not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful - it wasn't. Jacques Pepin apprenticeshipbutterend share on social
Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England. Stephen Gardiner conflictcontinualengland Change image and share on social
No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. Pope Paul VI brotherdropwar Change image and share on social
Al Gore didn't need to distance himself from Bill Clinton when he ran for president in 2000 because, when he ran, the country was in very good shape: strong economically and not at war. He did it anyway, and it was, in many people's estimate, mine included, one of the reasons he lost. Susan Estrich billclintoncountry share on social
I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice. Paolo Bacigalupi arisechoiceconflict Change image and share on social
Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. J. B. Priestley bombbritainburn Change image and share on social
I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things. Bill Gates arisechildcountry Change image and share on social
Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War. Gary Krist accountcivilcolore Change image and share on social
Missile strikes - or any other such action - against a sovereign nation is an act of war. Scott Garrett actactionmissile Change image and share on social
I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been. Sebastian Junger journalistnaziobjective Change image and share on social
