The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
“Something new had happened. The United States had gone to war, not under enemy attack, nor to protect the lives or property… — T.R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
“As I pulled into the parking lot, I reflected that odds were that not a lot of clandestine meetings involving mystical assassination,… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The twentieth century had dispensed with the formal declaration of war and introduced the fifth column, sabotage, cold war, and war by… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings… — Hans Koning Copy Share Image
“The means are... the balance of power in Europe and the rights of the people," the abbe was saying. "It is only… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The black man in North America was sickest of all politically. He let the white man divide him into such foolishness as… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Fascists are flourishing politically in France and Italy, and now comes the murder of Pim Fortuyn, a populist politician who might have… — David Pryce-Jones Copy Share Image
