Word: selfishnesses
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...without considering the effect of its course on other countries. All of them are already agreed that the U. S. must accept its responsibility in world affairs, not scuttle out of them as it did after Versailles. Says Chairman Dulles: "America must realize that isolation is not only stupid, selfish and impossible but positively immoral...
...little puppy in a dog-eat-dog world. ... I saw Sammy Glick on a battlefield where every soldier was his own cause, his own army and his own flag, and I realized that I had singled him out not because he had been born into the world any more selfish, ruthless and cruel than anybody else, even though he had become all three, but because in the midst of a war that was selfish, ruthless and cruel Sammy was proving himself the fittest, the fiercest and the fastest...
Said Minister of Home Security Herbert Morrison last December: "I conceive us to be aiming at a cooperative international system. . . . This depends on and involves the end of selfish national interests. . . . There must be no more private monopoly. If monopolies there be, they must serve the State...
...preservation of England should be a primary aim of the United States. The nation that is putting up so valiant a fight against the forces of aggression is, if only incidentally, serving as a bulwark of the unprepared western hemisphere against the common enemy. It is with a purely selfish aim in mind that this country must flood Britain with the aid which the defenders need so badly. Guns and planes and shells and ships must flow in a ceaseless stream from this hemisphere to the other. An arsenal we must be, not because we love the land of roast...
...Above all, I am convinced that America must repent of selfish isolation, and must assume its full share of our common responsibility for a just and enduring peace...