Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
HENRY KISSINGERIn 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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It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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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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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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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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