Commonplace Quote by Hjalmar Branting

The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish…

— Hjalmar Branting

The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which…

— Hjalmar Branting

At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual…

— Hjalmar Branting

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

We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international…

— Hjalmar Branting

Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the…

— Hjalmar Branting

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no…

— Hjalmar Branting

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most…

— Hjalmar Branting

Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for…

— Hjalmar Branting

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature

— Hjalmar Branting

We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not…

— Hjalmar Branting

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of…

— Hjalmar Branting