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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.

Henry Kissinger

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
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
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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Experience Important World
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Perspective Problem Thinking
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
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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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
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

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