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order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.

Henry Kissinger

If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
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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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
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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Art Fight War
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
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success 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
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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Learning Myself Necessary
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
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
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
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

order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.

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order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.

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