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20 quotes by Hjalmar Branting

 Karl Hjalmar Branting (help·info) (23 November 1860 – 24 February 1925) was a Swedish politician. He was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party (1907–1925), and Prime Minister during three separate periods (1920, 1921–1923, and 1924–1925). When Branting came to power in 1920, he was the first Social Democratic Prime Minister of Sweden. When he took office for a second term after the general election of 1921, he became...
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Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature.

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We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their... →

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But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and... →

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I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the... →

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The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was... →

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And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that... →

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Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation... →

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

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A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of... →

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As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great... →

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As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate... →

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We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we... →

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The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual... →

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