It has the added advantage of being true.
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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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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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The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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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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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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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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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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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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If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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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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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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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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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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Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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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 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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George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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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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The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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