Noah Feldman Quotes
An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter.
Feldman, Noah. What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building. Princeton University Press, 2004.
Hobson, like Mark Twain in America, was a major critic of imperialism.
This Proclamation was issued upon arrival of the British occupying imperial army in present day Iraq. The English policy makers like the Bush administration almost a century later were expecting a more welcoming reaction. See {585250}.
This statement became known as "The Truman Doctrine." Truman asked for $400 million to help Greece and Turkey fight stave off armed Communist minorities destabilizing their governments.
Alaska was then a territory and not yet a state. See {637486} for Eleanor Roosevelt’s then contemporaneous statement on statehood.
Iturbide, known also as Agustin I, was the first Emperor of Mexico who was executed by a firing squad.
The palace, which had belonged to the Ottoman Caliphs, who were called “Shadows of Allah on Earth”.
The Congress was reacting against the prospect of France supporting a monarchy in Mexico.
Noah R. Feldman is an American academic, author, columnist, public intellectual, and host of the podcast Deep Background. He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and chairman of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. His work is devoted to constitutional law, with an emphasis on free speech, law & religion, and the history of constitutional ideas.
