All nations are tempted - and few have been able to resist the power for long - to clothe their own aspirations and action in the moral purposes of the universe. (Hans Morgenthau)

All nations are tempted - and few have been able to resist the power for long - to clothe their own aspirations and action in the moral purposes of the universe.

Hans Morgenthau

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