Eisenhower’s greatest strength and his greatest weakness: compromise. He wants to make everyone happy, and believes that public opinion wins wars. Very often it seems Eisenhower would rather make the...
Estimates of the number of people killed by Stalin range from as low as twenty million to as high as sixty-two million unnatural deaths during Stalin’s time as Soviet leader. The man who is credited w...
Calling the Soviet Union
The camera as he talks, looking at notes.
Hard work and discipline lead to economic success. Government handouts and unsupervised policies of pity only rob people of incentive. If tax money continues to be wasted, it becomes morally wrong for...
He had compared the taxation to a form of slavery and had encouraged his fellow Jews to rise up against their oppressors.
Engraved on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington: God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of G...
Immediately after the war, a group of Jewish partisans known as the Nokmim traveled throughout Germany and Austria hunting down former members of the SS. Also known as the Avengers, this band of merce...
In Moscow, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, fearing that Kennedy’s popularity would lead to an erosion of support in East Berlin, quickly flew to that divided city to reassert his nation’s claims. He...
In his lifetime, Stalin will murder millions of people. Some will be shot, others will be denied food and ultimately die of starvation, millions will be sent to die in the deep winter snows of Siberia...
In short, this country has developed a ridiculous blind spot: the power and glorification of money. This is truly an affliction. It is holding us back as a nation, as a community. The true heroes of A...
In that moment of revealing, one historian will write of Cleopatra, her desire grew greater than it had been before.
Enormity of the German caravan
I’m that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half horse, half alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning...
Audience looking on, and 3,700 mourners in the pews, Margaret Thatcher’s taped eulogy concludes.
Tactician. He also has a deep understanding of Japanese culture, believing that the nation
Luddite you
Black, and become infested with maggots—thus the inability to sit astride,
Is completely
The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some, it takes an hour. For some, it takes days. But a real man will never let...
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