White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.
Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.
Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it to a high state of cultivation in many places, and then completely destroy it.
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.
The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.
The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military.
This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.
I would like to state that my personal opinions are that the people of every country should decide by themselves what kind of government they want.
The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.
Reforming the way the state works with businesses and providing incentives for employers will help preserve and create new jobs in Massachusetts.