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		<title>Stevenson, Adlai -- Speech (1955-04-11), &#8220;New China Policy&#8221; (radio address)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know some politicians who tell us that we don&#8217;t need allies. Life would certainly be much simpler if that were so, for our friends can be highly irritating. But it is not so.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I know some politicians who tell us that we don&#8217;t need allies. Life would certainly be much simpler if that were so, for our friends can be highly irritating. But it is not so.</p>
<br><b>Adlai Stevenson</b> (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman<br>Speech (1955-04-11), &#8220;New China Policy&#8221; (radio address) 
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		<title>Virgil -- The Aeneid [Ænē̆is], Book  7, l. 310ff (7.310-312) [Juno] (29-19 BC) [tr. Fagles (2006)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[But if my forces are not enough, I am hardly the one to relent, I&#8217;ll plead for the help I need, wherever it may be &#8212; If I cannot sway the heavens, I&#8217;ll wake the powers of hell! [Quod si mea numina non sunt magna satis, dubitem haud equidem implorare quod usquam est: flectere si [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">But if my forces<br />
are not enough, I am hardly the one to relent,<br />
I&#8217;ll plead for the help I need, wherever it may be &#8212;<br />
If I cannot sway the heavens, I&#8217;ll wake the powers of hell!</p>
<p><em><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">[Quod si mea numina non sunt<br />
magna satis, dubitem haud equidem implorare quod usquam est:<br />
flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.]</span></span></span></em></span></span></span></span></p>
<br><b>Virgil</b> (70-19 BC) Roman poet [b. Publius Vergilius Maro; also Vergil]<br><i>The Aeneid [Ænē̆is]</i>, Book  7, l. 310ff (7.310-312) [Juno] (29-19 BC) [tr. Fagles (2006)] 
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(<a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0055%3Abook%3D7%3Acard%3D286#:~:text=Quod%20si%20mea%20numina%20non%20sunt%0Amagna%20satis%2C%20dubitem%20haud%20equidem%20implorare%20quod%20usquam%20est%3A%0Aflectere%20si%20nequeo%20superos%2C%20Acheronta%20movebo.">Source (Latin)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>But if my own power not sufficient be,<br>
Undaunted, aydes I'le seek where ere they dwell;<br>
Will heaven not grant my sute, I'le raise up hell.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A65106.0001.001/1:6.7?rgn=div2;view=fulltext#:~:text=But%20if%20my,raise%20up%20hell">Ogilby</a> (1649)]</blockquote><br>


<blockquote>If native pow'r prevail not, shall I doubt<br>
To seek for needful succor from without?<br>
If Jove and Heav'n my just desires deny,<br>
Hell shall the pow'r of Heav'n and Jove supply.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aeneid_(Dryden)/Book_VII#:~:text=If%20native%20pow%27r%20prevail%20not%2C%20shall%20I%20doubt%0ATo%20seek%20for%20needful%20succor%20from%20without%3F%0AIf%20Jove%20and%20Heav%27n%20my%20just%20desires%20deny%2C%0AHell%20shall%20the%20pow%27r%20of%20Heav%27n%20and%20Jove%20supply.">Dryden</a> (1697)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But if my own divinity is not powerful enough, surely I need not hesitate to implore whatever deity any where subsists: if I cannot move the powers above, I will solicit those of hell.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Works_of_Virgil/GuFCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22my%20own%20divinity%22">Davidson/Buckley</a> (1854)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>If strength like mine be yet too weak,<br>
I care not whose the aid I seek:<br>
What choice 'twixt under and above?<br>
If Heaven be firm, the shades shall move.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aeneid_(Conington_1866)/Book_7#:~:text=If%20strength%20like%20mine%20be%20yet%20too%20weak%2C%0AI%20care%20not%20whose%20the%20aid%20I%20seek%3A%0AWhat%20choice%20%27twixt%20under%20and%20above%3F%0AIf%20Heaven%20be%20firm%2C%20the%20shades%20shall%20move.">Conington</a> (1866)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But if not enough my power,<br>
I shall not pause to ask what aid I may.<br>
And if I cannot bend the gods above, <br>
Then Acheron I'll move.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidvirgiltra00crangoog/page/n231/mode/2up?q=%22not+enough+my+power%22">Cranch</a> (1872), l. 388ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>If my deity is not great enough, I will not assuredly falter to seek succour where it may be; if the powers of heaven are inflexible, I will stir up Acheron.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/22456/pg22456-images.html#BOOK_SEVENTH:~:text=If%20my%20deity%20is%20not%20great%20enough%2C%20I%20will%20not%20assuredly%20falter%20to%20seek%20succour%20where%20it%20may%20be%3B%20if%20the%20powers%20of%20heaven%20are%20inflexible%2C%20I%20will%20stir%20up%20Acheron.">Mackail</a> (1885)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">But if of no avail<br>
My godhead be, I will not spare to pray what is of might,<br>
Since Heaven I move not, needs must I let loose the Nether Night.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29358/pg29358-images.html#BOOK_VII:~:text=But%20if%20of,the%20Nether%20Night.">Morris</a> (1900), l. 310ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">If too weak<br>
Myself, some other godhead will I try,<br>
And Hell shall hear, if Heaven its aid deny.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18466/pg18466-images.html#book7line172:~:text=If%20too%20weak%0AMyself%2C%20some%20other%20godhead%20will%20I%20try%2C%0AAnd%20Hell%20shall%20hear%2C%20if%20Heaven%20its%20aid%20deny.">Taylor</a> (1907), st. 42, l. 372ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">If so weak<br>
my own prerogative of godhead be,<br>
let me seek strength in war, come whence it will!<br>
If Heaven I may not move, on Hell I call.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D7%3Acard%3D286#:~:text=If%20so%20weak%0Amy%20own%20prerogative%20of%20godhead%20be%2C%0Alet%20me%20seek%20strength%20in%20war%2C%20come%20whence%20it%20will!%0AIf%20Heaven%20I%20may%20not%20move%2C%20on%20Hell%20I%20call.">Williams</a> (1910)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But if my powers be not strong enough, surely I need not be slow to seek succour wherever it may be; if Heaven I can not bend, then Hell I will arouse! <br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/workswithenglish02virguoft/page/24/mode/2up?q=%22if+my+powers%22">Fairclough</a> (1918)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">So, if my power<br>
Falls short of greatness, I must try another’s,<br>
Seek aid where I can find it. If I cannot<br>
Bend Heaven, I can raise Hell.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61596/pg61596-images.html#BOOK_VI:~:text=So%2C%20if%20my,can%20raise%20Hell.">Humphries</a> (1951)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Well, if my powers are not great enough,<br>
I shall not hesitate -- that's sure -- to ask help wherever<br>
Help may be found. If the gods above are no use to me, then I'll<br>
Move all hell.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aenei00virg/page/164/mode/2up?q=%22if+my+powers%22">Day-Lewis</a> (1952)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">If my power<br>
is not enough, I shall not hesitate<br>
to plead for more, from anywhere; if I<br>
cannot bend High Ones, then I shall move hell.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidofvirgil100virg/page/172/mode/2up?q=%22if+my+power%22">Mandelbaum</a> (1971), l. 410ff] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Well, if my powers fall short,<br>
I need not falter over asking help<br>
Wherever help may lie. If I can sway<br>
No heavenly hearts I'll rouse the world below.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneid00virg/page/206/mode/2up?q=%22if+my+powers%22">Fitzgerald</a> (1981), l. 423ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But if my own resources as a goddess are not enough, I am not the one to hesitate. I shall appeal to whatever powers there are. If I cannot prevail upon the gods above, I shall move hell.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidvirg00virg/page/172/mode/2up?q=%22my+own+resources%22">West</a> (1990)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">But if my divine strength is not<br>
enough, I won’t hesitate to seek help wherever it might be:<br>
if I cannot sway the gods, I’ll stir the Acheron.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilAeneidVII.php#anchor_Toc3086154:~:text=But%20if%20my,stir%20the%20Acheron.">Kline</a> (2002)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">But if my powers<br>
Are not great enough, why should I hesitate<br>
To seek help from any source whatever?<br>
If I cannot sway Heaven, I will awaken Hell!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Essential_Aeneid/y8pgDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22but%20if%20my%20powers%22">Lombardo</a> (2005)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>If I cannot bend the gods, I will move Acheron.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2012/05/10/vergil-aeneid-7-312/">@sentantiq</a> (2012)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>If my powers aren't enough, why not stoop to begging anyone? If I can't move the gods above, then I'll move Acheron.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Aeneid/FioVEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22if%20my%20powers%22">Bartsch</a> (2021)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>If I cannot bend Heaven,  I shall move Hell.<br>
[<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=W3SG1hJSArIC&newbks=0&lpg=RA2-PR29&dq=%22if%20I%20cannot%20bend%20heaven%2C%20I%20shall%20move%20hell%22&pg=RA2-PR29#v=onepage&q=%22if%20I%20cannot%20bend%20heaven,%20I%20shall%20move%20hell%22&f=false">Bartlett's</a>]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Addison, Joseph -- Essay (1711-10-02), The Spectator, No. 185</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[And that this is the Case very often, we may observe from the Behaviour of some of the most zealous for Orthodoxy, who have often great Friendships and Intimacies with vicious immoral Men, provided they do but agree with them in the same Scheme of Belief.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And that this is the Case very often, we may observe from the Behaviour of some of the most zealous for Orthodoxy, who have often great Friendships and Intimacies with vicious immoral Men, provided they do but agree with them in the same Scheme of Belief. </p>
<br><b>Joseph Addison</b> (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman<br>Essay (1711-10-02), <i>The Spectator</i>, No. 185 
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		<title>Noonan, Peggy -- What I Saw at the Revolution, ch. 11 (1990)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One odd thing about foreign-policy professionals is that for all their sophistication, they tend to think the way to communicate with allies and potential allies is to compliment and sooth, compliment and soothe. But that isn&#8217;t polite, it&#8217;s patronizing, and to patronize is to insult. Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It’s how true [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One odd thing about foreign-policy professionals is that for all their sophistication, they tend to think the way to communicate with allies and potential allies is to compliment and sooth, compliment and soothe. But that isn&#8217;t polite, it&#8217;s patronizing, and to patronize is to insult. Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It’s how true friends talk. </p>
<br><b>Peggy Noonan</b> (b. 1950) American writer<br><i>What I Saw at the Revolution</i>, ch. 11 (1990) 
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		<title>Kennedy, John F. -- (Attributed)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In politics you have no friends, only allies.</p>
<br><b>John F. Kennedy</b> (1917-1963) American politician, author, journalist, US President (1961–63)<br>(Attributed) 
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A frequent maxim of Kennedy's.
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		<title>Palmerston (Lord) -- Speech, House of Commons (1 Mar 1848)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and these interests it is our duty to follow.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and these interests it is our duty to follow.</p>
<br><b>Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston</b> (1784-1865) British statesman, Prime Minister (1855-58, 1859-65) [Lord Palmerston]<br>Speech, House of Commons (1 Mar 1848) 
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		<title>Chesterfield (Lord) -- Letter to his son, #293 (11 Nov 1752)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[But this truth from long experience I assert, that he who has the most friends and the fewest enemies, is the strongest; will rise the highest with the least envy; and fall, if he does fall, the gentlest, aud the most pitied.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But this truth from long experience I assert, that he who has the most friends and the fewest enemies, is the strongest; will rise the highest with the least envy; and fall, if he does fall, the gentlest, aud the most pitied. </p>
<br><b>Lord Chesterfield</b> (1694-1773) English statesman, wit [Philip Dormer Stanhope]<br>Letter to his son, #293 (11 Nov 1752) 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/letterstohisson00ches/page/476/mode/2up?q=%22fewest+enemies%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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		<title>Warner, Charles Dudley -- My Summer in a Garden, &#8220;Fifteenth Week&#8221; (1871)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 12:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politics makes strange bed-fellows.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Politics makes strange bed-fellows. </p>
<br><b>Charles Dudley Warner</b> (1829–1900) American essayist and novelist<br><i>My Summer in a Garden</i>, &#8220;Fifteenth Week&#8221; (1871) 
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		<title>Roosevelt, Theodore -- Essay (1900-06), &#8220;Latitude and Longitude Among Reformers,&#8221; The Century Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 2</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nevertheless, the fact remains that exactly as true patriots should be especially jealous of any appeal to what is base under the guise of patriotism, so men who strive for honesty, and for the cleansing of what is corrupt in the dark places of our politics, should emphatically disassociate themselves from the men whose antics [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nevertheless, the fact remains that exactly as true patriots should be especially jealous of any appeal to what is base under the guise of patriotism, so men who strive for honesty, and for the cleansing of what is corrupt in the dark places of our politics, should emphatically disassociate themselves from the men whose antics throw discredit upon the reforms they profess to advocate.</p>
<br><b>Theodore Roosevelt</b> (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)<br>Essay (1900-06), &#8220;Latitude and Longitude Among Reformers,&#8221; <i>The Century Magazine</i>, Vol. 60, No. 2 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/sim_century-illustrated-monthly-magazine_1900-06_60_2/page/212/mode/2up?q=%22guise+of+patriotism%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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		<title>Swift, Jonathan -- &#8220;Thoughts on Various Subjects&#8221; (1706)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[That was excellently observed, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That was excellently observed, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.</p>
<br><b>Jonathan Swift</b> (1667-1745) English writer and churchman<br>&#8220;Thoughts on Various Subjects&#8221; (1706) 
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		<title>Tolkien, J.R.R. -- The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 2: The Two Towers, Book 3, ch.  4 &#8220;Treebeard&#8221; [Treebeard] (1954)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not altogether on anybody&#8217;s side, because nobody is altogether on my side, if you understand me.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am not altogether on anybody&#8217;s side, because nobody is <em>altogether on my side</em>, if you understand me.</p>
<br><b>J.R.R. Tolkien</b> (1892-1973) English writer, fabulist, philologist, academic [John Ronald Reuel Tolkien]<br><i>The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 2: The Two Towers</i>, Book 3, ch.  4 &#8220;Treebeard&#8221; [Treebeard] (1954) 
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		<title>Publilius Syrus -- Sententiae [Moral Sayings]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He threatens many who injures one.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He threatens many who injures one.</p>
<br><b>Publilius Syrus</b> (d. 42 BC) Assyrian slave, writer, philosopher [less correctly Publius Syrus]<br><i>Sententiae [Moral Sayings]</i> 
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		<title>Abi-Talib, Ali ibn -- One Hundred Sayings [Sad Kalimah / Mi&#8217;at Kalimah]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. Quoted by (and thus frequently attributed to) Ralphg Waldo Emerson.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,<br />
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.</p>
<br><b>'Ali ibn Abi-Talib</b> (602-661) Fourth Caliph<br><i>One Hundred Sayings [Sad Kalimah / Mi&#8217;at Kalimah]</i> 
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