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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.

Henry Kissinger

It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Goal Oppression
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War
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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Experience Important World
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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

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