"If the Britain and France had done what they were obliged to do under the treaty and sent troops to enforce the treaty when Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland, the German general staff would have turned Hitler out. And one would not have had a cause for war, and you wouldn't have had World War II."

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Source : Source: www.npr.org

Graham T. Allison

#War Quotes #World Quotes #Done Quotes

“The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.”
“It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.”
“Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.”

Source : Gifford Pinchot (2017). “Gifford Pinchot: Selected Writings”, p.43, Penn State Press
“Forget your pain. It was what I said when I took Father's hand in the drawing room yesterday, what I repeated again tonight. But I didn't mean this. I must be careful. Yet what bothers me isn't the power of the magic or how, to a person, they've all accepted it as truth. No, what unsettles me the most is how much I want to believe it too.”
“I think that [Eddie Murphy's famous "White Like Me"] is probably the first time I thought, "Oh. Being black is different. That is a totally different experience."”
“stay together learn the flowers go light”
“Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.”

Source : "Paving a way for humble Willie Mac" by John Shea, www.sfgate.com. May 3, 2003.
“No matter how close we got to a station or a disc jockey ... they could disappear into the ether without so much as a wave goodbye or a farewell song.”

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