Top 37 James F Byrnes Quotes
#1. Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
#2. Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.
James F. Byrnes
#3. Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace.
James F. Byrnes
#4. Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
James F. Byrnes
#5. German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.
James F. Byrnes
#6. The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.
James F. Byrnes
#7. There comes a point in your life when you realize:
Who matters,
Who never did,
Who won't anymore,
And who always will.
So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
Adam Lindsay Gordon
#8. What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.
James F. Byrnes
#9. The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.
James F. Byrnes
#10. Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker.
Miranda Kenneally
#11. I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with our representatives the views of the United States Government as to some of the problems confronting us.
James F. Byrnes
#12. We have helped to organize the United Nations. We believe it will stop aggressor nations from starting wars. Because we believe it, we intend to support the United Nations organization with all the power and resources we possess.
James F. Byrnes
#13. Kind of necessary acceptance will form around her, like a lobster making its new shell, one that will be soft and easily breakable in the beginning but so hard that only lobster crackers can shatter it in the end. She can hardly wait.
Anita Shreve
#14. People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want.
David Mamet
#15. We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country.
James F. Byrnes
#16. The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.
James F. Byrnes
#17. To realize that everything in the universe is connected is to both accept our insignificance and understand our importance in it.
Jeffrey Fry
#18. When you free yourself from reaching a particular place, you reach every place!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#19. It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.
James F. Byrnes
#20. Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.
James F. Byrnes
#21. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
Horace Mann
#22. The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not denied them.
James F. Byrnes
#23. The world so clamors for action that men and women devote little time to thinking. Many believe in secondhand thinking. They find it easier to ascertain and adopt the thoughts of others than to think for themselves.
James F. Byrnes
#24. I think squats is a generic thing - you can do squats with anything. That's the great thing about it. As long as you get in a safe position to do it.
Greg Rutherford
#25. Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.
James F. Byrnes
#26. Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies.
James F. Byrnes
#27. I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.
James F. Byrnes
#28. That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement.
James F. Byrnes
#29. The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy.
James F. Byrnes
#30. Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
Earl Blumenauer
#31. Think like a Fox, but don't Behave like one!
Mohith Agadi
#32. It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.
James F. Byrnes
#33. We favor the economic unification of Germany. If complete unification cannot be secured, we shall do everything in our power to secure the maximum possible unification.
James F. Byrnes
#34. The working out of a balanced economy throughout Germany to provide the necessary means to pay for approved imports has not been accomplished, although that too is expressly required by the Potsdam Agreement.
James F. Byrnes
#35. We intend to continue our interest in the affairs of Europe and of the world.
James F. Byrnes
#36. Among many reasons for being stupid it may be urged, it is being like other people, and living like one's neighbours, and indeed without it, it may be difficult to love some neighbours as oneself: now seeing the necessity of being dull, you won't, I hope, take it amiss that you find me so ...
Elizabeth Montagu
#37. When writing fiction, memories still filter in, and these memories twist and distort and transform until they become living, breathing pieces of the story, as they have here.
Nova Ren Suma
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