Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Lansing

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American politician Robert Lansing.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Robert Lansing

Robert Lansing was an American lawyer and diplomat who served as Counselor to the State Department at the outbreak of World War I, and then as United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson from 1915 to 1920. A conservative pro-business Democrat, he was pro-British and a strong defender of American rights at international law. He was a leading enemy of German autocracy and Russian Bolshevism. Before U.S. involvement in the war, Lansing vigorously advocated freedom of the seas and the rights of neutral nations. He later advocated U.S. participation in World War I, negotiated the Lansing–Ishii Agreement with Japan in 1917 and was a member of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at Paris in 1919. However, Wilson made Colonel House his chief foreign policy advisor because Lansing privately opposed much of the Treaty of Versailles and was skeptical of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.

I consider those actors who amaze me are somehow less attractive to me than those actors who move me. — © Robert Lansing
I consider those actors who amaze me are somehow less attractive to me than those actors who move me.
You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.
I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.
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