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“The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn’t make it.”
Henry Kissinger
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“It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.”
George Washington
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Trust
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Experience
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Politics
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Prudence
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“Is there a “national interest” when a few people decide on war, and huge numbers of others – here and abroad – are killed or crippled as a result of such a decision? Should citizens not ask in whose interest are we doing what we are doing? Then why not, I came to think, tell the story of wars not through the eyes of the generals and diplomats but from the viewpoints of the GIs, of the parents who received the black-bordered telegrams, even of “the enemy.””
Howard Zinn
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War
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Politics
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Citizens
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History
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“Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.”
Edmund Burke
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Representation
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Public Welfare
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“Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.”
Edmund Burke
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Unity
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Principles
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Endeavours
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“It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.”
Theodore Roosevelt
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Robert Collier
1885
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Benjamin Disraeli
1881
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Ivan Turgenev
Camille Paglia
J.P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
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Guy Kawasaki
Mitch Hedberg
Charles Lamb
Margaret Fuller
Steven Wright
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Albert Einstein
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Mahatma Gandhi
Eleanor Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Oprah Winfrey
Martin Luther King Jr.
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