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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,

Henry Kissinger

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
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
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
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
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
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
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
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
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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Genius Security
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
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
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual 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

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