In short, the end justifies the means.
HENRY KISSINGERBecause complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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