“In a free society, every opportunity comes with three obligations. First, you must seize it. You must mold it into a work that brings value to others. Second, you must live it. Opportunity is nurtured only by action. Third, you must defend the freedom to pursue opportunities. You must embrace these three obligations as if the future of the United States depended on it. In fact, it does.” IfsFirstsDoeStatesFactsActionValuesThreeOpportunityWorkUnitedUnited StatesHard WorkThirdsEmbraceObligationPursueMoldFree Society Author:Roberto Goizueta
“The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.” StatesCharacterChanceUnitedPayUnited StatesCitizensDrawsForgivenessThirdsCrowdsFavorsFiftyGrants Author:Bill Vaughan
“The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda than anything that the United States has done. They have shown that there is a third way, that with peaceful protest you can have an end to dictatorship and a role for human dignity, a role for your religious faith in society.” PeopleWayHumansEndsStatesDoneReligiousUnitedRolesUnited StatesStreetsDignityThirdsDefeatPeacefulIdeologyProtestIranAlsDictatorshipSyriaEgyptReligious FaithAl QaedaHuman DignityLibyaPeaceful ProtestTunisia Author:Reza Aslan
“The implication of game theory, which is also the implication of the third image, is, however, that the freedom of choice of any one state is limited by the actions of the others.” StatesActionChoicesGamesTheoryThirdsImplicationsFreedom Of Choice Book:Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis Source: Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
“The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.” WorldStatesEvilNationsCapacityThirdsGood And EvilTransformingThird World Book:The Political Economy of International Relations Source: The Political Economy of International Relations