Truth Is Not Merely What

The Only Salvation Of The World Today... Is The Rapid Dissemination Of The Basic Values Of The West, That Is, The Ideas Of Democracy, Human Rights, The Civil Society, And The Free Market.

Self-confidence Is Not Pride. Just The Contrary: Only A Person Or A Nation That Is Self-confident, In The Best Sense Of The Word, Is Capable Of Listening To Others, Accepting Them As Equals, Forgiving Its Enemies And Regretting Its Own Guilt.

Ideology Is A Specious Way Of Relating To The World. It Offers Human Beings The Illusion Of An Identity, Of Dignity, And Of Morality While Making It Easier For Them To Part With Them.

The United Nations Would Probably Have To Rest On Two Pillars: One Constituted By An Assembly Of Equal Executive Representatives Of Individual Countries, Resembling The Present Plenary, And The Other Consisting Of A Group Elected Directly By The Globe's Population In Which The Number Of Delegates Representing Individual Nations Would, Thus, Roughly Correspond To The Size Of The Nations.

Our Country, If That Is What We Want, Can Now Permanently Radiate Love, Understanding, The Power Of The Spirit And Of Ideas. It Is Precisely This Glow That We Can Offer As Our Specific Contribution To International Politics.