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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.

Francis Bowes Sayre Sr. was a professor at Harvard Law School, High Commissioner of the Philippines, and a son-in-law of President Woodrow Wilson.

April 30, 1885 - March 29, 1972
Religion isn't yours firsthand until you doubt it right down to the ground. — © Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.
Religion isn't yours firsthand until you doubt it right down to the ground.
History down through the centuries has proved again and again that there can be but one outcome to a struggle for selfish power against forces fighting to protect and advance human rights. Those genuinely serving humanity always ultimately emerge triumphant. It is under their standards that the [Western] allies choose to throw in their lot for humanity's defense.
Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.
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