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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security

Henry Kissinger

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
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
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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Expectation Nation Respect
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
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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End Establishment History Power Rise War
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
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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Desire Heart Life Lose Tragedy Yourself
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
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
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
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
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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Moral Right Risk Survive
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security

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