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HENRY KISSINGERIntellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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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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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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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 knows no resting places and no plateaus
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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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Who controls the money controls the world.
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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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History is the memory of States.
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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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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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