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Plans for far-reaching changes in the character of international society are an intellectual by-product of all great wars.

— Nicholas J. Spykman America's Strategy in World Politics (1942)

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Geography is the most fundamental factor in foreign policy because it is the most permanent.

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Nations which renounce the power struggle and deliberately choose impotence will cease to influence international relations either for evil or good.

America's Strategy in World Politics (1942)

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