Cordell Hull Quotes

#1. Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

Zach Wamp

#2. Irwin F. Gellman's Secret Affairs: FDR, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles,

Larry Kramer

#3. There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time - at long last - be established and maintained.

Cordell Hull

#4. I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.

Cordell Hull

#5. The older she got, the quicker her mind went to death. Always, in the end, the thoughts of death.

Hugh Howey

#6. Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits.

Cordell Hull

#7. She accumulates stuff to insulate herself from the world,

Liane Moriarty

#8. Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.

Cordell Hull

#9. Through thickest gloom look back, immortal shade,
On that confusion which thy death has made.

Phillis Wheatley

#10. No achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted from our backs and a peace of lasting friendship descend upon us.

Cordell Hull

#11. I don't want to know the answer, but I can't live without the truth.

Sarah Noffke

#12. And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.

Charles Lamb

#13. An innocent smile skates closer with her movement, walking fingers up my stomach to halt over my heart, "Mate, you." She nods, as if declaring this is easy and absolute.

Poppet

#14. Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.

Cordell Hull

#15. Within a few weeks the organization for the maintenance of international peace and security, established by the San Francisco Charter, will be formally launched through the convocation of the first General Assembly of the United Nations.

Cordell Hull

#16. Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.

Cordell Hull

#17. To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.

Cordell Hull

#18. That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.

Cordell Hull

#19. I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.

Cordell Hull

#20. Live life, you deserve to be fully alive.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

Cordell Hull

#22. Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.

Cordell Hull

#23. You grab at any sign of hope. You grab it with both hands and breathe life into it, day after day. You do anything to keep it alive.

Melina Marchetta