“it is easier to work on your integrity when no one knows you, than to start working on it when you are at the top”
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“Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.”
― The First Circle
― The First Circle
“Consider, for example, the unrivaled ability of the United States to impose staggering sanctions on foreign firms as well as dissuasive commercial and financial embargoes on governments deemed to be insufficiently cooperative—an ability not unrelated to US global military dominance.”
― Capital and Ideology
― Capital and Ideology
“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.”
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