Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
HENRY KISSINGERIt is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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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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The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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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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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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History is the memory of States.
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It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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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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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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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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When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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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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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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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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