Eamon de Valera Quotes
We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.
De Valera, Éamon. "Address at Cork, 14 Dec. 1941." Speeches and Statements by Eamon de Valera 1917-1973, edited by Maurice Moynihan, Gill and Macmillan, 1980, p. 457.
At the time of this speech virtually the entire world believed that. However world attitude changed markedly after the administration of George W. Bush and the United States invasion of Afghanistan after September 11 and the Iraq War which was for regime change.
The Spanish had been beaten and bloodied by England, but no one else until Napoleon would come along later. So it was easy for Spain to bully and dominate the non-English countries.
George W. Bush. Reference to foreign policy situations like Syria where there is a major conflict or contest between two forces, each of which is fatally flawed from an American point of view.
Éamon de Valera was a prominent statesman and political leader in 20th-century Ireland, serving several terms as head of government and head of state, with a prominent role introducing the Constitution of Ireland.
