“All your decisions discount the Persians themselves, and that is the mistake of your ignorance and your plotting. To you the Persian is a stupid peasant who can't decide his own affairs; an uncultured wretch who will take all manner… — James Aldridge Copy Share Image
“If we do not stop these mar-makers not,...it will soon be too late. We are the only nation that can halt this crusade. It… — James Aldridge Copy Share
“The Americans love to play diplomacy by making scares. It's a crude method.” — James Aldridge Copy Share
“Religious fanaticism is simply good politics in the middle-eastern countries.” — James Aldridge Copy Share
“Firstly, the Azerbaijanian struggle for a measure of autonomy and self-government is genuine and is locally inspired. The facts of history and existing conditions… — James Aldridge Copy Share
“America capital has taken up this easy banner of world disorder and we are simply the poor willing fools that follow on behind. We… — James Aldridge Copy Share
“How do you English Socialists believe in Empire like that?' Steele said to Holmes. 'Empire is inimical to Democracy and it has no right… — James Aldridge Copy Share
“A man may have the right to criticize the Government, but I'm hanged if he has a right to brazenly use his free speech… — James Aldridge Copy Share
“I'd like you to see that we are interfering too drastically. WE can't just assume so completely that Azerbaijan is in the hands of… — James Aldridge Copy Share
“This solid permanence in Foreign Office affairs had always antagonized MacGregor: there was something threatening and deadly and over-sure in it. The building itself… — James Aldridge Copy Share
“Nothing that was said in here would decide MacGregor's fate. That decision was being made elsewhere. This was not the highest Court in the… — James Aldridge Copy Share
“You are claiming that the Soviet authorities began and influenced the existence of the Democratic Party [in Iran]. That is the basis of all… — James Aldridge Copy Share
“MacGregor shrugged. 'More than the population are opium addicts,' he said. 'Don't dismiss it like that,' she told him impatiently. 'I'm not dismissing it,'… — James Aldridge Copy Share
“It's easy these days to buy a nation, but it's quite difficult to take it by force.” — James Aldridge Copy Share
“The Honourable Lady confuses the American people with American policy… It is the very generosity of the American people which makes it possible for… — James Aldridge Copy Share
“I have betrayed no confidence and no trust. I simply wrote a letter in which I stated the truth--for the Government or anybody else.'… — James Aldridge Copy Share
