The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
HENRY KISSINGERPoor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Who controls the money controls the world.
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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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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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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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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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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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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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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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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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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 that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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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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Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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