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Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable

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
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
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True
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
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
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
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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Creation Freedom Peace Rule

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