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“The teaching of honest national history is especially important, since the teaching of false, chauvinist history is the main vehicle for spreading hypernationalism.”

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Since the mid-1990s, Russian leaders have adamantly opposed NATO enlargement, and in recent years, they have made it clear that they would not stand…

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The unpleasant truth is that some borders are untenable and preserving them causes conflict, not peace.

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Decapitation is a fanciful strategy.

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Great powers react harshly when distant rivals project military power into their neighborhood, much less attempt to make a country on their border an…

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I hate sleeping in the woods.

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When the United States worked to contain the Soviet Union during the Cold War, we went to enormous lengths to get as many countries…

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The central aim of American foreign policy has traditionally been to dominate the western hemisphere while not permitting another great power to dominate Europe…

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Nuclear weapons are the ideal middle-class weapons for Americans. They provide massive amounts of deterrence on the cheap.

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States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.

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Erosion of sovereignty is one more reason a powerful state with a liberal foreign policy ends up fighting never ending wars and fostering militarism…

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Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute.

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What disappoints me about Obama is that, when he came into office, he gave the impression he was going to reduce America's global commitments,…

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“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by”

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“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the…

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According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind…

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“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,…

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…

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