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61 " A Woodrow Wilson no lo amedrentaba la guerra. Su obra de teatro favorita era Enrique V, de Shakespeare, y le gustaba la cita: "Si es pecado codiciar el honor, soy el mayor de todos los pecadores". "
― Ken Follett , Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
62 " You will make love to a fat Prussian general who will call you his Liebling. "
63 " They had all endured years of propaganda in school, telling them about every British military victory and none of the defeats. They were taught about democracy in London, not about tyranny in Cairo. When they learned about British justice, there was no mention of flogging in Australia, starvation in Ireland, or massacre in India. They learned that Catholics burned Protestants at the stake, and it came as a shock if they ever found out that Protestants did the same to Catholics whenever they got the chance. Few of them had a father like Billy’s da to tell them that the world depicted by their schoolteachers was a fantasy. "
64 " An evident principle runs through the whole program,” Wilson had said. “It is the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.” Tears had come to Gus’s eyes when he had read these words. “The people of the United States could act upon no other principle,” Wilson had said. "
65 " Handel’s “He Shall Feed His Flock Like a Shepherd,” a popular anthem with elaborate part singing that the congregation performed faultlessly. As hundreds of tenor voices soared across the "
66 " La clase trabajadora es más numerosa que la dirigente, y más fuerte. Dependen de nosotros para todo. Les proporcionamos la comida, construimos sus casas, les hacemos la ropa, y sin nosotros se mueren. No pueden hacer nada a menos que se lo permitamos. Nunca lo olvides. "
67 " people who were polite to his mistress. Lloyd George spoke to the group. “That German ship delivered the guns to Mexico after all. It simply went to another port and quietly unloaded. So nineteen American troops died for nothing. It’s a terrible humiliation for Woodrow Wilson. "
68 " As in every country, Walter thought gloomily, army officers were pressing their political masters to take the first steps to war. It "
69 " Fitz probably had half a dozen bastards around the world, but Ethel’s was the only one he knew of for sure. "
70 " keep citizens waiting hours. A dose of German efficiency would do them a world of good. The same went for the disorderly Italians. Eastern Europe would benefit most of all. The old Russian Empire was still in the Middle Ages, with ragged peasants starving in hovels, and women flogged for adultery. Germany would bring order, justice, and modern agricultural methods. "
71 " They had just started their first scheduled air service. Planes went from Vienna to Kiev and back like railway trains. There would be a network of flights all over Europe after Germany won the war. And Walter and Maud would raise their children in a peaceful and well-ordered world. "
72 " But Wilson was an idealist who believed that the force of righteousness would overcome all obstacles. He underestimated the need to flatter, cajole, and seduce. "
73 " But you should go to bed.” “With your ladyship’s permission, I’d like to stay up until Lord Remarc telephones again. "
74 " The queen did not know what to say about a man whose virtue was that he did not beat his wife. “He was even kind to his ponies,” Mrs. Dai added. “I’m sure he was,” said the queen, back on familiar ground. "
75 " The Ottoman Empire was in decline, held back from modernization by a conservative Muslim priesthood. "
76 " Grigori had become good at that, and in consequence had won the loyalty of his platoon. "
77 " Men often told a fairy tale in which there was a division of labor in families, the man going out to earn money, the woman looking after home and children. Reality was different. "
78 " Whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou diest . . .’” She stopped, unable to speak for the constriction in her throat; then, after a moment, she swallowed hard and resumed. “ ‘Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried. "
79 " It was stupid, but people needed someone to hate, and the newspapers were always ready to supply that need. Maud knew the proprietor of the Mail, Lord Northcliffe. Like all great press men, he really believed the drivel he published. His talent was to express his readers’ most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That was why they bought the paper. "
80 " If you want to change the world, then foreign relations is the field in which you can do the most good – or evil. "