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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.

Henry Kissinger

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
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
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
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
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
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
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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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics

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