| |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them | | Niccolo Machiavelli | | | | | The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty | | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | | | The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground | | Winston Churchill | | | The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. | | Confucius | | | The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it. | | Henry Kissinger | | | 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 | | Woodrow T. Wilson | | | We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | | | You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. | | John Kenneth Galbraith | | | | | | | |
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