Will Kirkpatrick
Will Kirkpatrick
mistake thinking justice
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
healing thinking matter
Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.
war years america
When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States' policies of one hundred years ago, but then they always blame America first.
military war taught-us
Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.
political president unemployment
I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.
program democrat government-programs
Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.
democracy conviction unshakable
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal
government democracy assuming
I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred
military believe mean
I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest
effort political debate
What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.
ideas government mind
No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime and anywhere under any circumstances .
army surprise speed
The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.
government people discipline
Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. (for democracy) In Britain, the road to (democratic government) took seven centuries to traverse .
law two perfect
The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can be achieved by politics. The history of the last two centuries confirms what the framers of the Constitution understood: that the perfect is the enemy of the good, and the search for unalloyed virtue in public life leads to unalloyed terror.