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For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it’s not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.

Madeleine Albright

Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice. And losing has a price.
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Desire Determination Goodness Human Liberty Lose Man Potential Price Win
Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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Best Word
What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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Ability Change Choice People
The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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Oneself Purpose
The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Human Responsibility Right
Wilson’s doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state.
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Determination Idea People
The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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Effort Election People Power
Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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People Race
We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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Democracy Fight Freedom People Scare World
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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Difference Human Learning Myself Relationship
Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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Emotional Hate Policy
Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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Human Principle Respect Right
The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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Greatness Life Myself
If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it’s not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.

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For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it’s not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.

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