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What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

— Simone Weil

“The national interest cannot be defined as a common interest of the industrial, commercial, and financial companies of a country, because there is no…

— Simone Weil

We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests.

— John F. Kennedy

We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or…

— Edmund Burke

“You know, in the realm of diplomacy, we are all bound to defend and promote our respective national interests. But, there is also such…

— SBYudhoyono

A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy.

— Carl von Clausewitz

It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.

— Simon Sinek

“My prevailing interest has been in the world as a whole, and in the place of a person in a larger setting than one…

— John Hersey

In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin…

— John Foster Dulles

Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to…

— Kelly Miller

“We're taught to talk about the world as a world of as states conceived as unified, coherent entities. If you study international relations (IR)…

— Noam Chomsky

It has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds.

— Kay Granger