Clement Attlee Quotes
The press lives on disaster.
Attlee, Clement. Quoted in Williams, Francis. A Prime Minister Remembers. Heinemann, 1961.
This quotation is fascinating and illustrates the depth and complexity of the problem facing Abraham Lincoln. Howell actually used the word “evil” to describe the abolitionists and their political efforts end slavery. He and other slave holders did not see slavery and the murder, brutality, and torture that went with it as evil. After the Presidential years of James Buchanan who protected the South from slavery reform and abolition as the North was gaining political power and the abolitionists were having a greater and greater effect on public opinion in the North. While Southerners did not believe Lincoln would emancipate the slaves, they realized that the majority of the growing nation was opposed to slavery, and more and more Northern states were passing laws making any slave who sets foot in the State a free person. Slaves could not only have more reason to run away, but slave owners would not be able to get their “property” back. Lincoln would not help the South as Buchanan did, and the Southerners realized that over time, slavery would no longer be feasible or profitable. Cobb, very experienced at Washington politics, realized the changes that would come and thought that they would be “certain and speedy.”—see {620555}. Lincoln had been elected a month earlier and without Buchanan as President to protect the institution of slavery, the anti-slavery majority of the country would prevail unless the South seceded. Cobb was one of the strong advocates. 6 days later, the Georgia legislature called for a convention to debate secession. The irony was that if the South had not seceded and simply dragged its feet legislatively, it would have taken two or three decades for slavery to end. However, by seceding and initially fighting so hard and well while weak Union generals were in command, Lincoln was forced to try more drastic measures and issued the Emancipation Proclamation after only a few years. The Civil War and secession was not only a tactical and strategic error for the South, but rapidly brought about just what the Southerners were fighting to prevent.
Theis was the phrase he used to describe the collapse of the Soviet Union. This and other statements he made about the breakup of the Russian empire, together with his actons reagading foreign affairs, led many Western observers to think that Putin was trying to build up Russia to be amajor World Power as it was relatively recently. This annual address to the Duma has the importance of the United States' President with the State of the Nation Address. Every phrase and sentence is very carefully crafted. Also see Quotation 644184 under Related Quotes foir a more explicit statement,
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. Attlee was the first person to hold the office of Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, serving under Winston Churchill in the wartime coalition government. He went on to lead the Labour Party to a landslide election victory in summer 1945 and to a narrow victory in 1950. He became the first Labour Prime Minister ever to serve a full five-year term, as well as the first to command a Labour majority in Parliament and remains the longest-ever serving Leader of the Labour Party.
