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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Henry Kissinger

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
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Class History Oneself
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
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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Goal Oppression
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

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