A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
HENRY KISSINGERNobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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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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The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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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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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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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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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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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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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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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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Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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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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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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