Henrik Ibsen Quotes
I hold that man in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
This quotation was used by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his presidential nomination acceptance speech in 1956.
Henrik Ibsen, 1828-1906, Norwegian Writer, Letter to Georg Brandes, January 3, 1882
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She was charged with interfering with the Draft during WWI. She wrote and gave speeches against the war and was convicted according to the laws and court interpretations of the time.
So many of the lesser developed nations glory for the past and wish to regain it, that is unusual to see a Prime Minister who recognizes that the future can be far better than any past history for the nation.
Henrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, When We Dead Awaken, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder. Ibsen is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House was the world's most performed play in 2006.
