Arthur T. Hadley Quotes

The CHP is the oldest political party in Turkey. The great Turkish refomer, Ataturk, the first President of Turkey, represented this party. He modernized and cleaned up what was a backward and corrupt country and although there was little bloodshed in the massive cultural transformation, it was very much a top down revolution where the people, like most people, did not welcome radical changes to their society and way of life. Ataturk gave women the vote, imposed compulsory education for both genders, established a parliamentary system, banned traditional garb, and even forced a language change, shifting from the Arabic alphabet to the European Latin Alphabet. Most opposed however was his complete separation of church and state and the transformation of Turkey into a sectarian nation from what had been a theological dictatorship where the Sultan was the absolute ruler of the state and of the Muslim religion.

In the Watergate crisis H. R. Haldeman had asked for a Presidential pardon. A discussion of the request was held by some White House staff members:

During the Vietnam war, some senior military leaders urged use of atomic weapons. They reported the results of a computer simulation the Pentagon had done on the number of lives that had been saved by use of the atomic bomb in World War II:

Liberia was founded by American Blacks who dominated the Government until Doe shot the President on Television and seized the government. He was a member of the majority Krahn tribe which wanted to control the government. Under Doe the Liberian economy collapsed and civil rights evaporated.

Garfield reminded Americans of how radical and unusual the concept of democracy had been at the time of the adoption of The Constitution, and that the American Revolution was one of ideas as well as armies.

Compared to Most Democracies Canadian political power is shared between the Federal government and the provinces. As such the Prime Minister role in Canada is weaker than most heads of government.

In 1786, many veterans of the American Revolution had still not yet been paid the promised wages for their military service by the new national government. The States however had imposed taxes on farms to fund the new state governments and pay the state’s war debts mostly to rich merchants. Many veterans could not pay the taxes and some were thrown into debtors’ prison, and others had their farms foreclosed. Led by Daniel Shays, a small group of Massachusetts men conducted a mini rebellion by closing local court houses and tried to take over the local state armory. The Governor put down the rebellion by force and the rebels were jailed. Adams, the the former governor, recommended the death penalty and several of the rebels were executed. Thomas Jefferson disagreed. See {604839} for his famous quotation on the subject. This was one of the early crises of the new country and it was handled very poorly and unfairly.

This quotation is historically important because Davis clearly states the reason for the rebellion of the South. The anti-slave states were growing at a greater rate than the slave states and despite the greater voting power that a southerner had (a result of the 3/5 count of slaves for census purposes, and the Senate), the handwriting was on the wall and the majority of the United States was against the vicious institution of slavery and would make it unprofitable, impossible and/or illegal in the coming years. Southern slavery advocates saw this as a “tyranny of the majority” and therefore took up arms. In the early 20th century, apologists for the Southern rebellion tried to promote the idea that there were reasons other than slavery, but this quotation and the resolutions of the states who withdrew from the Union make it clear that the right to maintain slavery was the only significant issue. In that sense it was a States’ Rights issue, but the South was opposed to States’ Rights when it came to States refusing to return fugitive slaves when Federal Law required such under the Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision.