Pavel Josef Safarik Quotes
Even the cosmic forces do not equal the strength of a great nation which has risen to its moral consciousness and in a just struggle defends it’s existence.
Pavel Josef Safarik, 1795-1861, Czech Poet and Nationalist, Speech, Slav Congress, Prague, June 1847, Quoted by Adam Zamoyski in Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots, and Revolutionaries, 1776-1781
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This was another of the views of the fascists that drove much of their policies and practices but are demonstrably untrue. The world has many countries that have little power or world respect and yet the people are very happy. Luxemburg, Monaco, Finland and the Baltic Countries are just a few of the counter-examples.
He persuaded many other rulers to join the Indian Union when India became Independent.
Karsh was arguing that Arab citizens of Israel should be required to serve in the Israeli army and fight against other Arabs who have repeatedly attacked Israel. The Israeli tradition has been not to require Arab citizens to fight against what might be their own relatives. Karsh and others argue that Italian-Americans fought against other Italians in WWII, German-Americans fought against Germans.
At the time, the United States and Great Britain were trying to create a democratic nation in Iraq and having much difficulty.
This was the address where FDR used the “arsenal of democracy” phrase which became so famous. A similar phrase was used in May by Robert E. Sherwood--{624748}. Then Jean Monnet began to use the exact phrase in Mid 1940--{624746}. He almost certainly had read Sherwood’s earlier, similar phrase. However so had Presidential Aid Harry Hopkins who thought that it would be a good phrase for President Roosevelt to use to “brand” the activity of the United States. So diplomatically, Monnet was asked not to use the phrase any more, and he acceded to the request. At the end of the year, FDR gave his address with this quotation.
Pavel Jozef Šafárik was an ethnic Slovak philologist, poet, literary historian, historian and ethnographer in the Kingdom of Hungary. He was one of the first scientific Slavists.
