The Century - America's Time Quotes
"Host/Narrator: In 1997, the people of Britain gathered for a final farewell to Princess Diana. 96 years earlier in 1901 the same streets were crowded for the funeral of Queen Victoria who had given her name to an entire era. The world changed more between those two funerals than it had in 1000 years of history.
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Hannah Greensueit: People being desperate will run after a man like Hitler
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Host/Narrator: In the second world war this century 50 million people would die, nearly half of them civilians. They would die not because they lived near enemy targets but because they were the targets.
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Robert McNamara: Make no mistake about it, if you make a mistake with regards to nuclear weapons you will destroy nations.
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[about the Wall Street crash of 1929]
Clara Hancox: Overnight it was like bombs fell. People jumped off the George Washington bridge which had not long ago been built, people we knew! My father was wiped out, he never recovered, psychologically he never recovered.
Clara Hancox: Overnight it was like bombs fell. People jumped off the George Washington bridge which had not long ago been built, people we knew! My father was wiped out, he never recovered, psychologically he never recovered.
Movie: The Century - America's Time