Ferdowsi Quotes
If you seek peace, we do not want War. But if you want War, we will accept it unhesitatingly.
Firdausi, 934-1020, (Abu Al-Qasem Mansur), Persian Poet, Quoted in S. Gurbachan Singh Talib, Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab, 1947
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This appears to be the first American utterance of a longstanding doctrine of foreign policy.
Theodore Roosevelt was the Presidential nominee. Johnson was a leader of some members of Congress some of whom were extreme isolationists and some of whom were Nazi sympathizers and Hitler admirers. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor later that year, Germany, fulfilling its treaty with Japan, declared war on America, Johnson’s group no longer mattered. Before WWII most Republicans were opposed to Defense Spending and accused the Democrats of being war hawks. After WWII, they flip flopped and became more hawkish than the Democrats who they accused of being soft on defense for years thereafter. See {631380} for President Roosevelt’s different view.
Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (Persian: 940 – 1019/1025, also Firdawsi or Ferdowsi, was a Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poems created by a single poet, and the greatest epic of Persian-speaking countries. Ferdowsi is celebrated as one of the most influential figures of Persian literature and one of the greatest in the history of literature.
