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

Henry Kissinger

in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth
To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
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Strategy Writing
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: 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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Growth Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
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
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
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

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

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