1940s
Lord Montgomery of Alamein. Address to the Officers and Men of the Eighth Army. 13 Aug. 1942, Cairo, Egypt.
Baruch, Bernard M. Address in the South Carolina Legislature. 16 Apr. 1947, State House, Columbia, SC, USA.
Johnson, Gerald W. American Heroes and Hero-Worship. Harper & Brothers, 1943.
Churchill, Winston. "Never Give In." 29 Oct. 1941, Harrow School, Harrow, England, UK. Speech.
Churchill, Winston. "'Never give in!', 29 October 1941, Harrow School." Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches. A&C Black, 2013.
Hemingway, Ernest. Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time. Crown Publishers, 1942, introduction.
Truman, Harry S. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1949, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.
Said just prior to the moment of India's independence from the British Empire.
Nehru, Jawaharlal. "Tryst with Destiny." Indian Constituent Assembly. 14 Aug. 1947, New Delhi, India. Speech.
Quoted in The New Yorker
Babel, Isaac. Quoted in "Hide and Seek: The Complete Isaac Babel." Written by John Updike. The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2001.
Quoted in Downbeat Magazine
Parker, Charlie. Interviewed by Michael Levin and John S. Wilson. Downbeat Magazine, 9 Sept. 1949.
Einstein, Albert. "Einstein on the Atomic Bomb." Interviewed by Raymond Swing. Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1945.
Einstein, Albert. Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb. Princeton University Press, 2013, ch. 8.
Remark about the New York Giants baseball team, then in second-to-last place in the League.
Durocher, Leo. Quoted in New York Journal-American. 7 July 1946. Originally a remark about the New York Giants baseball team, 6 July 1946.
In reference to the UK's continued strategic bombing of German cities during World War II.
Harris, Arthur. Letter to Norman Bottomly. 29 Mar. 1945.
Maugham, William Somerset. The Summing Up. Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1938, ch. 13.
Adams, Franklin P. Nods and Becks. Whittlesey House, 1944.
Trevelyan, George Macaulay. English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries Chaucer to Queen Victoria. Longmans, Green and Company, 1942, ch. 18.