Elliot Richardson Quotes
If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power.
Richardson, Elliot L. The Creative Balance: Government, Politics, and the Individual in America's Third Century. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976.
The French had arrived there first an “claimed” the area with a tiny military contingent under Lieutenant Marchand. However, the British arrived afterward with a much larger military force. London and Paris decided that the French should withdraw in favor of the British. Delcasse had been right. Another case of “might makes right.”
The United States money was then on the Gold Standard. The country was growing and needed more money in circulation. But most of the gold that might be available was in England and English bankers could control much of the U. S. economy. The Populists and the Democrats wanted us to use silver to back U. S. money as there was plenty of silver in the United States. The Republicans would not relent and depression was upon the country. A half century later, it would be Republican President Richard M. Nixon, who took the United States off the gold standard. Lease was far ahead of her time.
In most modern societies there is a combination of merit appointments and repayment of the rich. In the United States, wealthy people are often appointed as Ambassadors to countries of which they know little and often do not even speak the language. Assistant secretaries of cabinet level positions also often are awarded to the wealthy campaign contributors. Occasionally, these wealthy people have talent and do a good job. On most occasions where a person is appointed as the direct or indirect result of wealth, the person is mediocre or poor.
There are over 600.000 reported rape cases in South Africa each year. Since most rape goes unreported the real total is much larger, making South Africa the worst country in the world on a sexual violence scale. There are many reasons suggested for the South African extreme. However, since apartheid was overthrown, all ANC Governments had had a reluctance to have heavy police action for anything and there is a general reluctance to imprison people as this was what the apartheid regimes did. So all criminal activity is relatively high in South Africa.
He wrote this essay anonymously and signed it as “A Lover Of Peace”
This memo was sent before he was nominated as a Supreme Court Justice. The Senate did not know of this memo at the time he was ratified otherwise he might not have been. Powell saw every serious critic of the American Economy or the existing government policies as “attacking” the American Free Enterprise System. Surprisingly, he thought that business executives were rather helpless when it came to supporting the status quo.
This quotation so impressed Thomas Jefferson that he wrote it in his Commonplace Book.
Elliot Lee Richardson was an American lawyer and public servant who was a member of the cabinet of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. As U.S. Attorney General, he was a prominent figure in the Watergate Scandal, and resigned rather than obey President Nixon's order to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox.
