Political Subordination Quotes

The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.

Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.

He's the president. I'm the general. Unless I want to get impeached, I got to do what he says.

From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy.

As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an economically oppressed population and to anger at political subordination and humiliation.

How [can] 9 million people enter into such arrangements as are proposed with 90 million strangers on an open frontier of 4 thousand miles and at the same time preserve their national integrity?.... It is her own soul Canada risks today. Once that soul is pawned for any consideration Canada must inevitably conform to the commercial, legal, financial, social, and ethical standards which will be imposed upon her by the sheer admitted weight of the United States.

Under our Constitution, military leaders have no choice but to endorse the president's decision after giving him their best advice.