Harry Dexter White quotes

Harry Dexter White quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Currency warfare is the most destructive form of economic warfare.”
-- Harry Dexter White

#Political Quotes #Warfare Quotes #Economic Quotes

“In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.”

Source : "The First World War". Book by A. J. P. Taylor , p. 165, 1963.
“In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.”
“A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.”

Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.
“Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.”
“Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.”
“Throughout the entire course of history, warfare is always changing.”
“I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East.”
“For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.”
“I can see that aerial warfare is actually scientific murder.”
“We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to democracy. We have political democracy but not economic democracy.”

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