Niall Ferguson Quotes
My arguments for liberal empire or whatever you want to call it - hegemony, primacy, you name it - are really activated by a sense that the alternatives involve more violence, more repression, more hardship.
Kreisler, Harry. "Empire: Conversation with Niall Ferguson." Conversations with History, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, 2004.
Patton was a great fighting general, but a disaster at civilian and public relations. At a time when the American and British governments were arguing that their involvement in world war two was for the benefit and protection of mankind, Patton made public statements like this one.
This is one of he earliest uses of the term “policemen of the world.”
Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising.
Adams was in agreement with his former chief George Washington {37176} as well as with many of his political foes.
At the end of WWII there was much tension between Russia and the Anglo-American alliance. This plan was developed but never implemented. See {613195} for Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s description of the invasion idea.
It was interesting that Reagan as a political presidential Republican candidate would criticize the foreign policy of the previous Republican Party. However the policy was created by President Richard Nixon who had but a small reservoir of support after Watergate.
stating that war was obsolete See {640087} for the quotation of exactly what Angell wrote.
Niall Campbell Ferguson is a Scottish historian and the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Previously, he was a professor at Harvard University, the London School of Economics and New York University, visiting professor at New College of the Humanities and senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford.
