League Of Nations Quotes

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

  David Lloyd George

  League, Armenia, Useless

  "The Riddell Diaries 1908-1923". Book by George Allardice Riddell, 1986.

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• The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.

  Benito Mussolini

  Fall, Technology, Eagles

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• It must be thoroughly understood that the lost land will never be won back by solemn appeals to the God, nor by hopes in any League of Nations, but only by the force of arms.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Land, League

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• Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task

  Hjalmar Branting

  Organization, League, Tasks

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• Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Lying, League

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1988). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• 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

  Running, Long, League

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

  Hjalmar Branting

  League, Corny, Enthusiastic

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• If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

  Haile Selassie

  Strong, Government, People

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

  Adolf Hitler

  Mean, Names, Long

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• All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers

  Hjalmar Branting

  League, Firsts, Degenerates

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• The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.

  Rene Cassin

  Country, Men, League

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• The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.

  Aristide Briand

  Europe, League, Groups

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• There is no reason why agreement on particular points should not be both possible and advantageous to the so-called neutrals and to one or more of the blocs, either existing or in the process of formation, within the League of Nations.

  Hjalmar Branting

  Agreement, League, Reason Why

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• Since we are not in the League of Nations in any case, we do not devote our attention to reflecting on its internal reforms.

  Adolf Hitler

  League, Reform, Attention

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• No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Military, Real

  "A Plea for Caution From Russia". www.nytimes.com. September 11, 2013.

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• We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Europe, League, World

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• Men since the beginning of time have sought peace...military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn have failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war. The utter destructiveness of war not blots out this alternative.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, War, Men

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• Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Running, Men, League

  Woodrow Wilson, United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) (1924). “The messages and papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Presidential, Covenant

  "Fourteen Points" Address to Joint Session of Congress, 8 Jan. 1918

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• Neither I nor anyone else in Germany would even consider placing any "conditions" on our possible return to the League of Nations. Whether or not we return to this body depends exclusively upon whether we can belong to it as a completely equal nation. This is not a "condition," but a matter of course.

  Adolf Hitler

  League, Body, Matter

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• The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.

  Christopher Dawson

  Strong, League, Enlightenment

  Christopher Dawson (2010). “The Crisis of Western Education (The Works of Christopher Dawson)”, p.94, CUA Press

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• 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 Treaty the short term of which is inherent in its own weaknesses and impracticabilities, is a point which can perhaps be contested by today's interested parties, but which will one day be deemed a matter of course in history.

  Adolf Hitler

  Party, League, One Day

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• After the First World War, it was, like, let's form the League of Nations, we have to learn to work together. It's the only way we're going to survive. And now it's like we're undoing these very fragile institutions that were built after the First and Second World Wars that were about nations working on a kind of global diplomacy for our mutual benefit. And we're undoing them at such rapid-fire pace.

  Zoe Leonard

  War, Mutual Benefit, Fire

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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• Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

  Ron Paul

  Thinking, World Government, League

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• The right place for the League of Nations is not Geneva or the Hague, Ascher Ginsberg has dreamed of a Temple on Mount Zion where the representatives of all nations should dedicate a Temple of Eternal Peace. Only when all peoples of the earth shall go to THIS temple as pilgrims is eternal peace to become a fact.

  Ahad Ha'am

  Zion, League, Earth

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