It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
HENRY KISSINGER
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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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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When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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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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Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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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 goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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