...one of the most notable characteristics of any Age of Conflict is the effort to achieve economic expansion by political rather than by economic means.

I very much would welcome and do welcome the transparency. To have the Chinese government officially say that there is a 17.7 percent increase in their defense spending next year, I think is a welcome addition to the knowledge that the world can then assess as to the amount of money that the Chinese government is spending on defense.

Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.

Bolshevism presented itself as an economic threat to themselves at the same time that Nazism presented itself as a political threat to their countries.

It never occurred to anyone in a responsible position that Germany and Russia might make common cause, even temporarily, against the West.