Woodrow T. Wilson, 28th President of the United States (1856-1924)
"No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation."
"There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by force that it is right."
Caligula's horse, er John Howard receiving an award for
public service from the Woodrow Wilson International
Centre for Scholars, Aug 23 2005. Photo: Steven Siewert.
"The Government has decided to commit Australian forces to action to disarm Iraq because we believe it is right, it is lawful and it's in Australia's national interest. We are determined to join other countries to deprive Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction, its chemical and biological weapons, which even in minute quantities are capable of causing death and destruction on a mammoth scale."
- John Howard, Address to the Nation, before the war in Iraq, 20 March 2003
It's worth noting that they don't specify which public has been so ably served.
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