Anne O'Hare McCormick Quotes

#1. Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

#2. The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

#3. The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

#4. The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

#5. The foundations of the world will be shaky until the moral props are restored.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

#6. [During a pre-war interview with Hitler when he screamed at her, 'The Jews! The Jews! What are you doing about the Jews in America?':] Why nothing. We think we're just as good as they are.

Anne O'Hare McCormick