“Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young members of rich families should offer themselves for military service. If not one of two sons, at least one of three sons should be ready to do so.” PeopleIfsMenShouldKindTwoYoungPoliticalThreeRichMilitaryExampleSonReadyOughtOffersMembersAll KindsCouncilInfluentialMilitary ServiceRich FamilyThree Sons Author:Chiang Kai-shek
“In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though they were sensual pleasures. This is what Europe offered, or was said to offer.” SaidAmericaPoliticalEnjoyPleasureOffersIntellectualEuropeCapacitySensualStabilityInfantileContinentalSensual Pleasure Book:It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future
“If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.” IfsMenWayYoungPoliticalCultureCoursesEnemyYouthTelevisionOffersClothesIntellectualIntelligentPopsDefenseYoung ManGamblingElitesConvincingFashionablePop MusicIntegratingInquiringNational CultureFashionable Clothes Author:Anthony Daniels
“Yoo's theory promotes frank discussion of the national interest and makes it harder for politicians to parade policy conflicts as constitutional crises. Most important, Yoo's approach offers a way to renew our political system's democratic vigor.” WayImportantPoliticalInterestPolicyTheoryPoliticianOffersConflictApproachHarderCrisisDemocraticDiscussionFrankParadesPolitical SystemsVigorNational Interests Author:David B. Rivkin
“war has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions ... It has lodged in our souls as a kind of religion, a quick tonic for political malaise and a bracing antidote to the moral torpor of consumerist, market-driven cultures.” KindWarSoulPoliticalCultureMoralMillionsEconomicOffersDrivenAntidoteLivelihoodEconomic SystemsMalaise Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“Have you ever visited that portion of Erin's plot that offers its sympathetic soil for the minute survey and scrutinous examination of those in political power, whose decision has wisely been the means before now of converting the stern and prejudiced, and reaching the hand of slight aid to share its strength in augmenting its agricultural richness?” MeanHandsPoliticalDecisionShareMinutesOffersAidsSoilReachingPlotPortionsExaminationRichnessSympatheticSurveysPolitical PowerConvertingErin Author:Amanda McKittrick Ros