A deck of cards was built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it and a lackey to those above it.
The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.
God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.
We must conquer war or war will conquer us.
Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.
I had always been fascinated by the bizarre world of cards. It was a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments were meted out immediately.