"Stalin’s postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order."

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Source : John Lewis Gaddis (2006). “The Cold War: A New History”, p.13, Penguin

John Lewis Gaddis

#Country Quotes #Order Quotes #Goal Quotes

“The war could kill the faith in him, too, if he was not strong or careful enough. He could feel it fluttering within him sometimes, a bird in a cage of knives. Its own blood on its face and wings.”
“We are the total of our longings.”

Source : Guy Gavriel Kay (2016). “The Summer Tree: Book One of the The Fionavar Tapestry”, p.37, Hachette UK
“Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.”
“Man's the bad child of the universe”

Source : James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”
“History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We cannot join in the rewriting of history to make it conform to our comfort and convenience.”
“I came to the United States in the early '80s and was welcomed with open arms and given the opportunity to pursue my dreams. God has been very kind to us. My family and I are fortunate enough to be successful and we feel a tremendous responsibility and obligation to give back to our great country.”
“As the old saying goes, 'money is power' and the more money the government takes, the more power it has over individuals.”

Source : Angela McGlowan (2009). “Bamboozled: How Americans are being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda”, p.47, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are.”

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