Clergyman's

The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense that reason could be employed to make the world a better place.
- John Mearsheimer

The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of the world's major economic powers.
- John Mearsheimer

Decapitation is a fanciful strategy.
- John Mearsheimer

The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.
- John Mearsheimer

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.
- John Mearsheimer

When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.
- John Mearsheimer

I believe that the existing power structures in Europe and Northeast Asia are not sustainable through 2020.
- John Mearsheimer

The optimists' claim that security competition and war among the great powers has been burned out of the system is wrong. In fact all of the major states around the globe still care deeply about the balance of power among themselves for the foreseeable future.
- John Mearsheimer

When an aggressor comes on the scene, at least one other state will eventually take direct responsibility for checking it.
- John Mearsheimer