... any country that is not careful can be seized.

When Russia started to regain some of its strength as an economy and as a state, the West's reaction - perhaps a subconscious one, based on erstwhile fears - was panic.

The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything!