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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

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

— Hjalmar Branting

“No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.”

— Lysander Spooner

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance…

— Haile Selassie

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

Man holds these rights [life, liberty and property], not from the Collective nor for the Collective, but against the Collective - as a barrier…

— Ayn Rand

“The Utopians call those nations that come and ask magistrates from them Neighbours; but those to whom they have been of more particular service,…

— Sir Thomas More

The League of Nations could've been something really, really big... it wasn't. A lot of guys were frustrated about it in a way.

— Sheamus

All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage…

— Hjalmar Branting

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

— Russell M. Nelson

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the…

— Robert A. Dahl

Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

— Samuel Smiles