A Quote by – William Edgar Borah

Topic of this Quote:

Author Name:

William Edgar Borah

Born As:

William Edgar Borah

Other Names:

The Lion of Idaho.

Born:

29 Jun 1865

Died:

19 Jan 1940
Reportedly said in September 1939, after Germany invaded Poland.

The source of this quote was a 1940 Senate Document, News Articles on the Life and Works of Honorable William E. Borah, written by William Kinsey Hutchinson, then International News Service's Washington Bureau Chief. Hutchinson indicated that Borah said it to him in private "in words that ran like a prayer."

There is no other public record of Borah saying this; Borah died before Hutchinson published the document, and thus could not deny or confirm it; its veracity is therefore unknown.