Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
I would have all intoleration intolerated in its turn.
Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Miscellaneous Works of the Late Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield. Vol. 4, Edward and Charles Dilly, 1777, p. 287.
In what became the Cuban missile crises, American intelligence and President Kennedy had been surprised to discover that the Russians had established operational missiles in Cuba. New York Times had also discovered the fact and was going to print the story The President was trying to put a naval blockade into place and didn’t want Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev to know what had been discovered and the countermeasures that were being planned until he could present the Soviets with a fait a complait. He asked the Times editors not to print the story. They agreed.
The US Congress passed the Magnitsky Act which allowed parties to sue in American Courts, Russian companies and individual wrongs committed against Russian Citizens in Russia. (The Russian prison system controlled by some corrupt powers in Russia had killed Magnitsky for exposing some massive corruption of some Russian officials. Although morally justified, legally the act was an interference in another nation’s internal affairs.) The Russians then banned the adoptions which actually hurt them far more than the U. S., but it was a retaliation which to maintain their dignity and sovereignty the Russians felt was necessary. It is an excellent example of the lack of predictability and reaction to various foreign policy moves. Retaliation could take any form, related or not, proportional or not, rational or not.
In 2017 President Donald Trump, in resposnse to a Nazi, KKK, & White Supremicists "March" in Charlottesville, Virginia and a citizen counter protest, in whcih one of the White Supremicists ran down in a car a number of citizen protesters killing one, equated the two groups be saying that there was violence on both sides. Most of the country was outraged, and Frazier was the first member of the President's Business Advisory Council resigned in protest, making this statement. Many did so also, and Trump in a desparate effort to avoid the embarassing news each time there was anotehr resignation be a leading CEO, disbanded his 3 citizen advisorty councils.
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, was a British statesman, and a man of letters, and wit. Educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he subsequently embarked on the Grand Tour of the Continent, to complete his education as a nobleman, by exposure to the cultural legacies of Classical antiquity and the Renaissance, and to become acquainted with his aristocratic counterparts and the polite society of Continental Europe.
