Becca Fitzpatrick Quotes
Violence doesn't equal strength.
Fitzpatrick, Becca. Hush, Hush. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2009.
In this case, he was referring to the situation with the Barbary Pirates who had an incredible extortion racket going in the Mediterranean. If nations would pay them an annual sum each year, they would not attack and seize merchant ships of that country and sell the ships and goods while holding the sailors for ransom. Jefferson favored and authorized war—a naval attack which for many reasons the European nations had not done (they just paid the tribute). Then a peace treaty was finally signed—the first American Treaty.
She and her husband, like many of the "America Firsters", believed that Hitler should be allowed to overrun Europe and Russia.
See Prince Otto von Bismarck-Schoenhausen {632620} for a similar focus on "iron and blood". This is no coincidence as Lindemann had been the Captain of the Battleship Bismarck.
Becca Fitzpatrick is an American author, best known for having written the New York Times bestseller Hush, Hush.
