Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Interview with George Sylvester Viereck, 1923 https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2007/sep/17/greatinterviews1 <br class="br">1920s
Speech to the National Assembly (8 October 1919), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 331
1910s
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Interview with George Sylvester Viereck, 1923 https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2007/sep/17/greatinterviews1 <br class="br">1920s
“… the Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Extract from his 1922 election address, quoted in T.W. Walding (ed.), Who's Who in the New Parliament:Members and their pledges (Philip Gee, London, 1922), p. 35
1920s
Declan Ganley (1968) Irish businessman, entrepreneur, and activist
Source: The Fight for Democracy – The Libertas Voice in Europe. (2009), p. 18
Arthur Ponsonby (1871–1946) British Liberal and later Labour politician and pacifist
Part of the statement that became known as the Ponsonby Rule (1 April 1924).
Context: It is the intention of His Majesty's Government to lay on the table of both Houses of Parliament every treaty, when signed, for a period of 21 days, after which the treaty will be ratified and published and circulated in the Treaty Series. In the case of important treaties, the Government will, of course, take an opportunity of submitting them to the House for discussion within this period. But, as the Government cannot take upon itself to decide what may be considered important or unimportant, if there is a formal demand for discussion forwarded through the usual channels from the Opposition or any other party, time will be found for the discussion of the Treaty in question.
“I was at peace with the world before, and this finish’d the treaty with myself.”
Laurence Sterne book A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Calais.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)
Jean-Claude Juncker (1954) Luxembourgian politician
http://www.nzz.ch/2007/06/24/eng/article7955045.html, EU leaders hammer out treaty deal, Swissinfo / NZZ, 24 June 2007, 2007-06-26
2007
“I have been the last to sign this treaty; I will be the last to break it.”
Little Turtle (1752–1812) Chief of the Miami people (c. 1747 – July 14, 1812)
upon signing the Treaty of Greenville http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/little-turtle-at-the-treaty-of-greenville.htm, August 3, 1795 <br class="br">Quotes from Michikinikwa
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Published as having been made in an (August 1936) interview http://www.greatwar.nl/frames/default-churchill.html with William Griffin, editor of the New York Enquirer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Enquirer, who was indicted for sedition http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,773366,00.html by F.D.R.'s http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/fr32.html Attorney General Francis Biddle http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/aboutosg/biddlebio.htm in 1942. In a sworn statement before Congress in 1939 Griffin affirmed Churchill had said this; Congressional Record (1939-10-21), vol. 84, p. 686. In 1942, Churchill admitted having had the 1936 interview but disavowed having made the statement (The New York Times, 1942-10-22, p. 13). <br class="br">In his article "The Hidden Tyranny," Benjamin Freedman attributed this quotation to an article in the isolationist http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,795133,00.html publication Scribner's Commentator in 1936. However, that magazine did not exist until 1939. He may have gotten the date wrong or might have been referring to one of its predecessors, Scribner's Monthly http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/browse.journals/scmo.html or Payson Publishing's The Commentator http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,765655,00.html. <br class="br">Disputed
“This text is, in fact, a rerun of a great part of the substance of the constitutional treaty.”
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926–2020) President of France
On the Lisbon Treaty, in his blog, 25 June 2007, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing: Conclusions du Conseil européen de Bruxelles, 21 et 22 juin 2007 http://vge-europe.eu/index.php?post/2007/06/25/Conclusions-du-Conseil-europeen-de-Bruxelles-21-et-22-juin-2007, 25 June 2007.