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Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.

Henry Kissinger

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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Art Avoid Revenge
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
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
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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End Establishment History Power Rise War
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
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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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory

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