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The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy QUOTES

1 " The one thing he did die a martyr to was his own conscience. He wanted to do the right thing because it was his idea of the thing to do, and for that—and that alone—he died. This is the satisfaction which you and I will always have. "

― David Nasaw , The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

2 " Lindbergh was horrified. “The English,” he wrote in his diary, “are in no shape for war. They do not realize what they are confronted with. They have always before had a fleet between themselves and their enemy, and they can’t realize the change aviation has made. I am afraid this is the beginning of the end of England as a great power.”38 "

― David Nasaw , The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

3 " Lindbergh did as he was asked, wrote the report, and presented in it the most frightening scenario imaginable: “For the first time in history a nation has the power either to save or to ruin the great cities of Europe. Germany has such a preponderance of war planes that she can bomb any city in Europe with comparatively little resistance. England and France are far too weak in the air to protect themselves. "

― David Nasaw , The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

4 " I suggest that our statesmen read something of modern history before going all out for saving the world. . . . With nations as with individuals, the ALLY YOU HAVE TO BUY WILL NOT STAY BOUGHT. "

― David Nasaw , The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

5 " Roosevelt knew better than to suggest that Chamberlain criticize or call into question “the present German policy of racial persecution.” All he asked was that he try to negotiate an agreement that would permit Jewish refugees who wanted to leave Germany “to take with them a reasonable percentage of their property.  "

― David Nasaw , The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

6 " you should wire him correct information "

― David Nasaw , The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

7 " been raised rather successfully "

― David Nasaw , The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

8 " People are not embracing Communism as Communism, but they are discontented, insecure and unsettled and they embrace anything that looks like it might be better than what they have to endure. . . . It is very easy for anybody who has a job and is getting along all right to cry for democracy . . . but if you cannot feed your children and you do not know where the next meal is coming from, nobody knows what kind of freak you will follow.”13 "

― David Nasaw , The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

9 " On April 29, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, whom Roosevelt had asked to answer Kennedy’s four-page letter, assembled his chief advisers for a 10:15 meeting. “Now, the reason I have got you fellows in here, this is extra confidential. I got one of these typical Joe Kennedy letters to the President on gold. . . . It is one of these typical asinine Joe Kennedy letters.” Morgenthau was opposed to Kennedy’s recommendation that the British be pressured to sell their securities to fund the war effort, because he feared that dumping those securities on the market would result in a dramatic fall of American stock prices. "

― David Nasaw , The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

10 " This was precisely what Kennedy expected and feared Churchill was going to say. The newly installed prime minister intended to push the British to fight on until the Americans had no choice but to enter the war or watch from the sidelines as Great Britain was conquered. "

― David Nasaw , The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

11 " 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

12 " 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 "

― David Nasaw , The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy