If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power.
-- Elliot Richardson
   
Elliot Richardson   Name:
Elliot Richardson
Type:
Lawyer
Nationality:
American
Birth:
July 20, 1920
Death:
December 31, 1999
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