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If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Henry Kissinger

Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
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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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
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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Deep Philosophy True
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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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
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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Creation Freedom Peace Rule
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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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