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“strategy can never be divorced from the costs of implementing it.”
Gideon Rose, A New Cold War?: Russia and America, Then and Now

Jon Meacham
“We cannot guarantee equal outcomes, but we must do all we can to ensure equal opportunity.”
Jon Meacham, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

Mark Twain
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
Mark Twain

Alexis de Tocqueville
“I do not think that there is a single country in the world where, in proportion to the population, there are so few ignorant and, at the same time, so few educated individuals as in America.”
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America

“Dwight D. Eisenhower, regularly insisted that the National Security Council specify as “the basic objective of our national security policies: maintaining the security of the United States and the vitality of its fundamental values and institutions.” To achieve the former without securing the latter, he warned, would be to “destroy what we are attempting to defend.”
Gideon Rose, A New Cold War?: Russia and America, Then and Now

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