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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Henry Kissinger

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
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
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
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
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 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
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
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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Growth Live Strong Time Weakness
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
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
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 that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time

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