A Political Society Does Not Live To

The Russian Leaders Are Keen Judges Of Human Psychology, And As Such They Are Highly Conscious That Loss Of Temper And Of Self-control Is Never A Source Of Strength In Political Affairs.

We Should Not Lose Ourselves In Vainglorious Sohemes For Changing Human Nature All Over The Planet. Rather, We Should Learn To View Ourselves With A Sense Of Proportion And Christian Humility Before The Enormous Complexity Of The World In Which It Has Been Given Us To Live.

The Jealous And Intolerant Eye Of The Kremlin Can Distinguish, In The End, Only Vassals And Enemies, And The Neighbors Of Russia, If They Do Not Wish To Be One, Must Reconcile Themselves To Being The Other.

There Is More Respect To Be Won In The Opinion Of This World By A Resolute And Courageous Liquidation Of Unsound Positions Than By The Most Stubborn Pursuit Of Extravagant Or Unpromising Objectives.

It Is Obviously Easier, For The Short Run, To Draw Cheap Labor From Adjacent Pools Of Poverty...than To Find It Among One's Own People. And To The Millions Of Such Prospective Immigrants From Poverty To Prosperity, There Is, Rightly Or Wrongly, No Place That Looks More Attractive Than The United States. Given Its Head, And Subject To No Restrictions, This Pressure Will Find Its Termination Only When The Levels Of Overpopulation And Poverty In The United States Are Equal To Those Of The Countries From Which These People Are Now So Anxious To Escape.