Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.