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The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.

Henry Kissinger

Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Goal Oppression
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
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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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
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
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
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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Strategy Writing
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time

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