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• ...there is an optimal balance, depending on the manner of man's life, between the density of human population and the tolerances of…
• This is a big world. Billions - rapidly increasing billions - of people live outside our borders. Obviously, a great number of…
• It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's…
• Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the…
• Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility…
• It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for…
• Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with…
• The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia,…
• It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient…
• There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions…
• War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.
• A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable…

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