Anne O'Hare McCormick famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
-- Anne O'Hare McCormick

#Peace #Real #War
[During a pre-war interview with Hitler when he screamed at her, 'The Jews! The Jews! What are you doing about the Jews in America?':] Why nothing. We think we're just as good as they are.
-- Anne O'Hare McCormick

#War #Thinking #America
The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence.
-- Anne O'Hare McCormick

#Mistake #Long #Decision
The foundations of the world will be shaky until the moral props are restored.
-- Anne O'Hare McCormick

#Foundation #World #Moral
The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.
-- Anne O'Hare McCormick

#Peace #Military #Struggle
The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree. ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.
-- Anne O'Hare McCormick

#War #Blood #Roots

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.
Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds me is for real.
I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.
To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

Anne O'Hare McCormick famous quotes

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