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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.

Henry Kissinger

History is the memory of States.
HENRY KISSINGER

History Memories
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
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
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
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
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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Growth Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
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
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time

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