Competing Quote by Hjalmar Branting

It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be

— Hjalmar Branting

The fact that, with time, this League [of Nations]-which was presumably designed by its founders to exist for all eternity-cannot be coupled with a…

— Adolf Hitler

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of…

— Arthur Henderson

“Nations, no matter how small and unmeritorious, cannot be annihilated. They may be put down and even divided up, and their name erased from…

— W. C. Corsan

If in the past, after every lost war, the unlucky vanquished were divested forever of their honor and their equality of rights, the League…

— Adolf Hitler

“Even mighty states and kingdoms are not exempted. If we look into history, we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings and spreading…

— David McCullough

As long as the League of Nations constitutes only a treaty of guarantee for the victorious nations, it is by no means worthy of…

— Adolf Hitler

The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass…

— David Lloyd George

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough…

— Christopher Dawson

No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations

— Hjalmar Branting

There was a deliberate decision after the failure of the League of Nations to make the next attempt to establish a global political actor…

— Richard A. Falk

No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is…

— Vladimir Putin