Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
HENRY KISSINGERThe 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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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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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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If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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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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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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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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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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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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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 has the added advantage of being true.
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The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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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 is the memory of States.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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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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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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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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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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