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“True freedom depends on local self-government, effective access of the people to their individual rights. Sometimes I question whether the United States has not reached the limit of size under which the people of a nation can have a real voice in its government.”
― Robert A. Taft, A Foreign Policy for Americans

“Despite philosophical fantasizing about self-sufficient individuals, human beings need a deep belonging and the more they are individualized, the more they are eager to assimilate collective identities - even absurd ones - without realizing to what extent their self-proclaimed individual sovereignty is illusory”
― Ryszard Legutko, The Cunning of Freedom: Saving the Self in an Age of False Idols

“No foreign policy can be justified except a policy devoted without reservation or diversion to the protection of liberty of the American people, with war only as the last resort and only to preserve that liberty.”
― Robert A. Taft, A Foreign Policy for Americans

“All political projects that neglect human nature and disregard the lessons drawn from centuries of political experience have to compensate for their lack of realism by a disproportionately high degree of intervention in both the social fabric and in human minds.”
― Ryszard Legutko, The Cunning of Freedom: Saving the Self in an Age of False Idols