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We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know no...

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Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete t...

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History is a better guide than good intentions.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom security and the enjoyment of opportunity.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, ...

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I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectu...

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Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.

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Jeane Kirkpatrick

United States Ambassador to the United Nations

Born: 1926-11-19

Died: 2006-12-07

Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick (November 19, 1926 – December 7, 2006) was an American conservative political scientist and member of the neoconservative movement. After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign, she was nominated as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and was the first woman to hold this position.More