Bill Clinton Quotes
Security and peace are not cheap.
William Clinton, 42nd President of the United States (Democrat, AR), Speech on the 50th Anniversary of the Marshall Plan, The Hague, Netherlands, April 28, 1997
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The same sentiment has been attributed to Aristotle.
The documentation of this quotation comes from a memorandum summarizing the meeting written by Presidential aide Harry Hopkins.
The speech was the 50th Anniversary of the Speech that Secretary of State Byrne had given there exactly 50 years ago. It was referred to as the “Speech of Hope” and announced the Marshall Plan.
There were many who thought that the Russians would view the Mutual Security Act as aggressive and they might respond with some kind of aggressive retaliation and this could lead to war. Others felt that containment would reduce the likelihood of war.
1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley. Chamberlain was about to leave for the Munich Conference where his appeasement emboldened Hitler and the Germans and dashed all hope of peace. Baldwin was out of office, but his support of the Munich appeasement changed his image from that of a popular statesman, to a craven appeaser. See {626930} for Churchill’s view of Baldwin.
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who was the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Clinton was previously Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992, and the Arkansas Attorney General from 1977 to 1979. Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III – he changed to his stepfather's name at age 15.
