Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
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In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.
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