"The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on tactics."

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Source : Comment to his brother Allen. Quoted in Peter Grose Gentleman Spy (1994).

John Foster Dulles

#Goal Quotes #Tactics Quotes #World Quotes

“So, you've got a problem? That's good! Why? Because repeated victories over your problems are the rungs on your ladder of success. With each victory, you grow in wisdom, stature and experience. You become a better, bigger, more successful person each time you meet a problem and tackle and conquer it with a positive mental attitude.”
“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.”
“Go into the auto mechanic, youve got to know computers to be able to work on the cars.”
“Could there possibly have been an incumbent more easy to knock-off than George W. Bush? A real-life opposition party would have been insulted to be matched with a such an unworthy and frail rival. The Democrats, by contrast, got their lights punched out.”
“There is "no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality--and none of these great goods without stability and order.”

Source : Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Clinton Rossiter (1961). “The federalist papers”, Signet
“I want to be a big model. I know I still have a lot to learn, but I believe that will be one day I do it perfectly!”
“If we want to change things, we must first change ourselves. If we want to play -- if we want to change the world -- we must first show up on the field to score.”

Source : "Oprah Talks to Paul Rusesabagina". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 2006.
“Discovering various economists, economic works, reading financial periodicals and keeping up on current events in geopolitics and economics around the world opened my eyes to many facets of how the extended order works.”

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