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1832–1918 United States

Andrew Dickson White (November 7, 1832 – November 4, 1918) was an American diplomat, author, and educator who was the co-founder and first president of Cornell University.

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The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

When bullying was needed it was generally understood that he could do it con amore.

Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Vol. 2 (1922)

Europe became one broad battlefield,—drenched in human blood and lighted from innumerable scaffolds.

Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1915)

Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.

Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1915)

The dominant international gospel was that of Machiavelli.

Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1915)

I have constantly had in mind the average man intelligently interested in political affairs.

Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1915)

He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour.

Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1915)

The British ambassador was Sir Robert Morier.

Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Vol. 2 (1922)

TURGOT...I present today one of the three greatest statesmen who fought unreason in France between the close of the Middle Ages and the outbreak of the French Revolution—Louis XI and Richelieu being the two other.

Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1915)

Never was there a more perfect demonstration of the truth asserted by Daniel Webster, that, of all contrivances for defrauding the working people of a country, arbitrary issues of paper money are the most effective.

Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1915)

For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the United States has been twice saved in our time by the arguments formulated by Turgot.

Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1915)

Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a persecution from his fellow-Protestants more bitter than anything he had ever experienced from Catholics.

Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1915)

Refusing to heed his argument the French people had again to be punished more severely than in John Law's time: the over-issue of assignats and mandats during the Revolution came forty years after his warning; and paper money inflation was again paid for by widespread bankruptcy and ruin.

Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1915)

The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century some promising beginnings of a different method—the method of inquiry into Nature scientifically—the method which seeks not plausibilities but facts.

A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1896)

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