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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Henry Kissinger

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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Perspective Problem Thinking
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
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
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
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
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
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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Art Fight War
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
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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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

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