Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
2041
AUTHOR:
Sir Halford John Mackinder (1861–1947)
QUOTATION:
When our Statesmen are in conversation with the defeated enemy, some airy cherub should whisper to them from time to time this saying: Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland: Who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island: Who rules the World-Island commands the World.
ATTRIBUTION:
SIR HALFORD JOHN MACKINDER, Democratic Ideals and Reality: A Study in the Politics of Reconstruction, p. 186 (1919).
