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21 " For a second time in less than a decade, the United States, Kennedy worried, instead of retreating to its fortress America, building up its domestic economy, and constructing an impregnable military defense, was on the brink of launching a wasteful, quixotic, and potentially deadly quest “to establish liberal democracy throughout the world. "
― David Nasaw , The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
22 " Hitler had shouted at Wilson in their face-to-face meeting that as far as he was concerned, the British cabinet and the Czechoslovak government had only two choices: to accept his terms or to reject them. If they chose the latter, Hitler thundered, then repeated several times, “I will smash the Czechs.” He gave the governments until two P.M. the following day to accept his terms.50 "