by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 20, 2015 | Foreign Policy
There is nothing sets the character of a nation in a higher or lower light with others, than the faithfully fulfilling, or perfidiously breaking of treaties. —Thomas Paine. The American Crisis, May 31, 1782. Defense treaties It is not a case of the encirclement of...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 20, 2015 | Foreign Policy
Every man’s business must be done according to his own mind: and if this be true in particular persons, it is more plainly so in whole nations. —Algernon Sidney. Discourses Concerning Government, 1689. A country’s motivation is its own concern, but the righteousness...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 20, 2015 | Foreign Policy
Every individual is entitled to rule himself, and from this right is derived the right of self-government of groups of people through democratic political compacts. However, when one people rule another people, regardless of the nature of their own government—it is...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 20, 2015 | Foreign Policy
The economic success of the Western world is a product of its moral philosophy and practice. The economic results are better because the moral philosophy is superior. It is superior because it starts with the individual, with his uniqueness, his responsibility, and...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 20, 2015 | Foreign Policy
Poor Neville Chamberlain believed he could trust Hitler. He was wrong. But I don’t think I’m wrong about Stalin. —Winston Churchill. Remark to his cabinet ministers, February 23, 1945, quoted from the diary of Hugh Dalton. Churchill understood the threat posed by...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 20, 2015 | Foreign Policy
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of...
