Quotes by Cordell Hull - Page 1

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.
Cordell Hull / Former United States Secretary Of State
Funny
Epic
Insult
Rivers
After
Alligator
Never
Crossed
Until
River
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I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.
Cordell Hull / Former United States Secretary Of State
America
Trials
Triumph
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To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.
Cordell Hull / Former United States Secretary Of State
Determination
Machinery
Pieces
Social
Constructed
Effective
However
Piece
Unless
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That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.
Cordell Hull / Former United States Secretary Of State
War
Destruction
Development
Limitless
Mean
Scary
Brought
Direction
Terrifying
Prospect
Rapid
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I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.
Cordell Hull / Former United States Secretary Of State
Attainment
Goes On
Organization
Perfect
Time Great I Am
Fully
Improved
Objective
Realize
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No achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted from our backs and a peace of lasting friendship descend upon us.
Cordell Hull / Former United States Secretary Of State
Peace
War
Achievement
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There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time - at long last - be established and maintained.
Cordell Hull / Former United States Secretary Of State
Government
Greater
Long
Responsibility
Everywhere
Sure
Time Peace Long
Established
Enduring
Governments
Last
Maintained
Resting
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Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.
Cordell Hull / Former United States Secretary Of State
Men
Technology
Energy
Military
Science And Technology
Threshold
Triumphant
Wipe
Entire
Purposes
Sources
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Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.
Cordell Hull / Former United States Secretary Of State
War
Air
Breathe
Circumstances
Existence
Ominous
Second World War
Shadow
Life War Peace
Attendant
Cast
Essential
Second
World Peace
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Within a few weeks the organization for the maintenance of international peace and security, established by the San Francisco Charter, will be formally launched through the convocation of the first General Assembly of the United Nations.
Cordell Hull / Former United States Secretary Of State
Assembly
Charter
International
Maintenance
Nations
Organization
San Francisco
Security
United Nations
Peace Will Security
General
Established
Weeks
Francisco
San
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Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.
Cordell Hull / Former United States Secretary Of State
Appreciation
Action
Disappointment
Generous
Gratitude
Honor
Please
Profound
Regard
Sincere
Assure
Enhance
However
Serve
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Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.
Cordell Hull / Former United States Secretary Of State
War
Agency
Creation
Desire
International
Mean
Nations
Reality
Realization
Brought
Fortunately
Stark
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Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits.
Cordell Hull / Former United States Secretary Of State
Government
One Day
Years
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I am firmly convinced that in the world of today all nations will be forced to the conclusion that cooperation for law, justice, and peace is the only alternative to a constant race in armaments-including atomic armaments-and to other disruptive practices that will bring the nations participating in them on either side to a common ruin, the equivalent of universal suicide.
Cordell Hull / Former United States Secretary Of State
Law
Race
Suicide
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