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But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism.

— Henry Cabot Lodge

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.

— Thomas Pynchon

I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the time. But we can live in a world where we kill each other a lot less.

— Michael Franti

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

— Aldous Huxley

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

— George Herbert Mead

The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.

— Kal Penn

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

— Woodrow Wilson

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

— Abigail Adams

No person can be more deeply sensible than myself of the danger of entangling alliances with any foreign nation. That we should avoid such alliances has become a maxim of our policy consecrated by the most venerated names which adorn our history and sanctioned by the unanimous voice of the American people.

— James K. Polk

✗Opposing Perspectives

We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.

— Ameen Rihani