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“Today's announcement projects a picture of profound weakness in U.S. diplomacy. It should not have been a heavy lift for our diplomats in New York and in foreign capitals to recruit the necessary 96 affirmative votes to seat the United States in the new council.”

Should Has Beens States Today United United States New York Projects Weakness Vote Profound Heavy Lifts Seats Diplomacy Council Diplomats Affirmative Announcements Recruit

Author:Tom Lantos

“To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority to the masses of one's fellow men, and (c) delicately and unceasingly amused according to one's taste. It is my contention that, if this definition be accepted, there is no country in the world wherein a man constituted as I am - a man of my peculiar weakness, vanities, appetites, and aversions - can be so happy as he can be in the United States.”

“Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.”

World States Whole Age Earth Fall Grows One Thing Weakness

Book:De rerum natura

Source: De rerum natura

“The best critical consideration of the inherent weakness of a federation of states in which the law of the federation has to be enforced on the states who are its members is contained in the Federalist Papers.”

States Law Members Paper Weakness Critical Consideration Inherent Papers Federalist Federalist Papers Federation

Book:Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis

Source: Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis

“What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes.”

May States Felt Virtue Authority Weakness Court Simplicity London Reform Manners Isolation Enlightened Defects Renewal Multiplicity Salons

Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution