If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
HENRY KISSINGERYet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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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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A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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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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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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Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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It has the added advantage of being true.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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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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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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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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A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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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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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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In short, the end justifies the means.
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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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