In short, the end justifies the means.
HENRY KISSINGERThe absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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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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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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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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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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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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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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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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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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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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Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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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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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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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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History is the memory of States.
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Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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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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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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