83 Quotes by Arthur Herman

If America didn’t join the League, it would be “a death warrant” for its children, who would die in the next war.34.

Wilson worried that the Constitution itself would not survive: “a nation can’t put its strength into a war and keep its head level; it has never been done.”13.

Of course Your Excellency will deny this story,” Hale blurted out. Zimmermann turned to him. “I cannot deny it,” he replied glumly; “it is true.”23.

Do not imagine, comrades, that I am simply looking for a revolutionary form of justice. We have no concern about justice at this hour! We are at war, on the front where the enemy is advancing, and the fight is to the death.”3.

Debs ran for president, in 1920, it would be from behind bars, as Convict No. 9653 in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.

The basic lesson of Indian history was already established. Material power like kingdoms, and kings, including Alexander the Great, comes and goes. But spiritual power, embodied in religion and caste and spiritual unity with Brahman, the changeless essence of the universe, lasts forever. Prime.

One of the votes against war came from the very first woman ever to sit in the House of Representatives, Jeannette Rankin.

Lenin did not care either way. Their time would come later; for now, his message had been broadcast loud and clear. No one, absolutely no one, would be allowed to stand in the way.

This country seems able to do more by accident than any other country can do on purpose. – Employee at Bechtel-McCone B-29 modification plant, Birmingham, Alabama, 1943.