True greatness Quote by Walter Russell Mead

What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.

— Walter Russell Mead

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for…

— Walter Russell Mead

The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through…

— Walter Russell Mead

Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.

— Walter Russell Mead

“The African villager with a solar powered smartphone has more access to more information than Louis XIV in the halls of Versailles.”

— Walter Russell Mead

Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan…

— Walter Russell Mead

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed…

— Walter Russell Mead

We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of…

— Walter Russell Mead

There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is…

— Walter Russell Mead

Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those…

— Walter Russell Mead

Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to…

— Walter Russell Mead

It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did…

— Walter Russell Mead