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> [“...it is a different matter entirely to commit military resources to keep peace in such areas, where often no peace can be kept, or to build nations in our own image before they are ready for our freedoms - or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeane-kirkpatrick/it-is-a-different-matter-entirely-to-commit-military-resources-to/)

[Jeane Kirkpatrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeane-kirkpatrick/)

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## More by Jeane Kirkpatrick

> [A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeane-kirkpatrick/a-doctrine-of-class-war-seemed-to-provide-a-solution-to-the-problem/)

[Jeane Kirkpatrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeane-kirkpatrick/)

> [It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeane-kirkpatrick/it-was-not-malaise-we-suffered-from-it-was-jimmy-carter-and-walter/)

[Jeane Kirkpatrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeane-kirkpatrick/)

> [When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeane-kirkpatrick/when-marxist-dictators-shoot-their-way-into-power-in-central-america/)

[Jeane Kirkpatrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeane-kirkpatrick/)

> [That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeane-kirkpatrick/that-is-simply-that-marxism-has-been-tremendously-fashionable-in-our/)

[Jeane Kirkpatrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeane-kirkpatrick/)

> [There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeane-kirkpatrick/there-is-an-absolutely-fundamental-hostility-on-the-part-of/)

[Jeane Kirkpatrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeane-kirkpatrick/)

> [Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeane-kirkpatrick/truth-which-is-important-to-a-scholar-has-got-to-be-concrete-and/)

[Jeane Kirkpatrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeane-kirkpatrick/)

> [And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeane-kirkpatrick/and-i-think-detente-had-manifestly-failed-and-that-the-pursuit-of-it/)

[Jeane Kirkpatrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeane-kirkpatrick/)

> [Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeane-kirkpatrick/cultural-constraints-condition-and-limit-our-choices-shaping-our/)

[Jeane Kirkpatrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeane-kirkpatrick/)

> [Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeane-kirkpatrick/look-i-don-t-even-agree-with-myself-at-times/)

[Jeane Kirkpatrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeane-kirkpatrick/)

> [ Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road \[to democratic government\] took… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeane-kirkpatrick/decades-if-not-centuries-are-normally-required-for-people-to-acquire/)

[Jeane Kirkpatrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeane-kirkpatrick/)

> [Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural experience teaches…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeane-kirkpatrick/democracy-not-only-requires-equality-but-also-an-unshakable/)

[Jeane Kirkpatrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeane-kirkpatrick/)

> [Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeane-kirkpatrick/democracy-not-only-requires-equality-but-also-an-unshakable-2/)

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> [Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeane-kirkpatrick/americans-need-to-face-the-truth-about-themselves-no-matter-how/)

[Jeane Kirkpatrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeane-kirkpatrick/)

> [For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeane-kirkpatrick/for-all-their-faults-right-wing-authoritarian-regimes-more-easily/)

[Jeane Kirkpatrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeane-kirkpatrick/)

> [All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeane-kirkpatrick/all-of-us-confront-limits-of-body-talent-temperament-but-that-is-not/)

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