National League Quotes Page 2

[Lloyd George] said that Harding's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow America to dominate the seas. If this was to be the outcome of the League of Nations propaganda, he was sorry for the world and in particular for America.

The right place for the League of Nations is not Geneva or the Hague, Ascher Ginsberg has dreamed of a Temple on Mount Zion where the representatives of all nations should dedicate a Temple of Eternal Peace. Only when all peoples of the earth shall go to THIS temple as pilgrims is eternal peace to become a fact.

It's very difficult to have any faith in the sincerity of the SLORC about stamping out drug production if they find it so easy to forgive a drug baron whom at one time they said they would never, never forgive and would never, never regard as anything but a drug runner. The SLORC is far more aggressive in its attitude toward the National League for Democracy than against drug traffickers.

A living thing is born.

American League teams don't bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot.

Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.

Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.

The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.

No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization.

All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers.

It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be.

Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions.

Let us return, however, to the League of Nations.

To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task.

No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.

After the First World War, it was, like, let's form the League of Nations, we have to learn to work together. It's the only way we're going to survive. And now it's like we're undoing these very fragile institutions that were built after the First and Second World Wars that were about nations working on a kind of global diplomacy for our mutual benefit. And we're undoing them at such rapid-fire pace.

I became exclusively an American League fan when they instituted the DH rule, and will remain so until the National League moves out of the dark ages.

It's not like I had to throw the football and deal with that as well.

It was more disheartening, to be honest with you, just to kind of see how the National Football League really is.

From the Cooperative League, I suppose, with the Depression lingering as long as it did, the next step in terms of, as you call it, professional relationship, was to go to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]. I went there as an assistant field secretary, and so forth. So, I suppose that was the first organized step.

If I was going to make one rule change, I would bring the DH to the National League.

There are those who argue that the concept of human rights is not applicable to all cultures. We in the National League for Democracy believe that human rights are of universal relevance. But even those who do not believe in human rights must certainly agree that the rule of law is most important. Without the rule of law there can be no peace.

Excluding nobody, I'm the best player in the National Football League.

The National League is baseball to me.

Some people wouldn't say I coached in the National Football League.

I coached with the Raiders, right?

There were never a lot of attacks on my work.

We were building more parks than were ever built in the city, building more recreation centers, fixing more streets. We had national events, the Super Bowl, the (Major League Baseball) All-Star game, Final Four. We built seven hotels. The city hadn't built a hotel in 20 or more years.

National League umpires wear inside chest protesters.

I am certain that a solution of the general problem of peace must rest on broad and basic understanding on the part of its peoples. Great single endeavors like a League of Nations, a United Nations, and undertakings of that character, are of great importance and in fact absolutely necessary, but they must be treated as steps toward the desired end.

When I came over here (the National League), I always heard it was a stronger league, with amphetamines all over the clubhouse, but all I found was Michelob Dry.

Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.

It's said the religious right wants to force its faith on the public.

But whose faith are we talking about?... Everyone who operates in the political arena wants to see their morals reflected in our laws and governmental institutions - including the National Organization of Women, the National Abortion Rights Action League, and the American Civil Liberties Union, whether or not they are willing to admit it.

Watching National League pitchers trying to hit or even bunt is depressing.

I am a National Football League player of American Samoan heritage.

Because of my status as a professional athlete, I have been blessed to play a role in educating players and fans about the culture and history of America's southernmost territory.

I think there's more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions to make.

As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because you either loved them or you hated them.