The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency.
-- Elihu Root

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“If the world determined that Americans were a “weak, flabby, divided, and indefinite people” who could be “insulted and assaulted and abused with impunity,” then the tide of history would flow “over us and we are gone. Our country is gone. Our union is gone. Our liberty is gone.”

“Cabinet Weighs War Plans,” New York Times, March 24, 1917”

The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
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