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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.

Henry Kissinger

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
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
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
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
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
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
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
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
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
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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Expectation Nation Respect
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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Moral Right Risk Survive
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule

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