Cordell Hull Quotes

1871–1955 United States

Cordell Hull (2 October 1871 – 23 July 1955) was United States Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944 under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 for his role in establishing the United Nations.

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Also known as: Hull, Cordell

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A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on.

Memoirs of Cordell Hull (1948)

There will no longer be need for spheres of influence, for alliances, for balance of power, or any other of the separate alliances through which in the unhappy past the nations strove to safeguard their security or promote their interest.

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Cordell Hull (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.