History is the memory of States.
HENRY KISSINGERThe mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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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 turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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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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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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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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Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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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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If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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