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“the mind of the child is like soft wax, which will take the least stamp you put on it, so let it be your care, who teach, to make the stamp good, that the wax be not hurt.”
― Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
― Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
“this injunction of TR’s remains resonant: “To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
― The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
“strategy can never be divorced from the costs of implementing it.”
― A New Cold War?: Russia and America, Then and Now
― A New Cold War?: Russia and America, Then and Now
“We cannot guarantee equal outcomes, but we must do all we can to ensure equal opportunity.”
― The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
― The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
“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.”
― A New Cold War?: Russia and America, Then and Now
― A New Cold War?: Russia and America, Then and Now
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