International law Quotes by Hugh Brogan

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“Cordell Hull and other good Wilsonians who had pinned their faith on international law were outraged and frightened chiefly by Hitler’s lies, by his contempt for treaties and all the machinery of conciliation.”

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“The business of America is business,’ said Calvin Coolidge”

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“Certainly, the new day was at hand when President Harding took office. The amazing disparity between the job and the man has the right twenties flavour: it was an era of contradictions. Harding was not intelligent or firm or hard-working enough to be a successful President. His other personal weaknesses hardly mattered. True, he committed adultery in a coat-cupboard at…

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“In an election speech in 1936, he said: I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen two hundred limping, exhausted men come out of line – the survivors of a regiment of one thousand that…

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“Reverend John Allen of Massachusetts took up the cry: Blush ye pretended votaries for freedom! ye trifling patriots!… for while you are fasting, praying, nonimporting, nonexporting, remonstrating, resolving, and pleading for a restoration of your charter rights, you at the same time are continuing this lawless, cruel, inhuman, and abominable practice of enslaving your fellow creatures.”

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“The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice. Theodore Roosevelt”

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“The day was not far off when, as the saying goes, if Wall Street sneezed, the rest of the world would catch a cold.…

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“A library of books like Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race (1916) warned the Americans that they could not safely continue to…

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“The new Republican party thought that it did, and in its 1856 platform denounced slavery and polygamy together as ‘twin relics of barbarism’. Or”

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“a confirmation of two of history’s more dismal lessons: that grand alliances rarely survive the shock of victory, and that great powers usually behave…

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“Hating your neighbour is almost as secure a psychological prop as loving him, especially if he differs from you in looks, language or habits.”

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“The Republicans, however, refused to let power slip from their hands so easily. The carpetbag governments in Louisiana and South Carolina announced that Rutherford…

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