Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

William Ewart Gladstone
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  1. We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
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  3. Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
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