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...economy, Pakistan needed industries. Some, the government has built itself. But "the best method of industrialization is through the investment of private venture capital," said Ali. Voicing the creed of a convinced free enterpriser, he declared: "It was the adventurous risk capital of the 19th century that built the fortress of industrial strength the U.S. enjoys today...
Saints & Sultans. When the rulers of France, England and Germany led forth the third and greatest of the Crusades, they were playing international politics on the side. England's towering, blond Richard the Lionhearted stormed the supposedly impregnable fortress of Acre, and later fought at Jaffa with such bravery that when his horse fell, the admiring Sultan Saladin sent him two fresh chargers. But Richard himself had backslid so far as to bargain with the infidel, offering to marry his sister to the Sultan's brother in return for access to Jerusalem...
There is already in the United States no little talk of a return to isolation, and the policy is described as "Fortress America." We may, however, be sure that all the strongest, wisest forces over there, irrespective of party, will not allow the great republic to be turned from the path of right and duty, and that they will disdain the taunts of impudence as effectively as they confront toil and danger...
...This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand...
Each nation had its own ideas of how the fortress should be built...