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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Henry Kissinger

Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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Expectation Nation Respect
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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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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Art Avoid Revenge
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories

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