Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.
Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1878-1969, Protestant Cleric and Author, Armistice Day sermon, November 11, 1933
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While Queen Mary was presenting medals to British soldiers during World War I, she said this to a soldier who had exclaimed “No more bloody wars for me”.
This seems to be the origin of the notion that democracies and republics are less likely to war with others than monarchies or dictatorships.
The highest court in New York.
The irony was that it was by warfare that he conquered most of the Hawaiian Islands and formed them into a kingdom.
Harry Emerson Fosdick was an American pastor. Fosdick became a central figure in the Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy within American Protestantism in the 1920s and 1930s and was one of the most prominent liberal ministers of the early 20th century. Although a Baptist, he was called to serve as pastor, in New York City, at First Presbyterian Church in Manhattan's West Village, and then at the historic, inter-denominational Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, Manhattan.
