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.
HENRY KISSINGERIn 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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It has the added advantage of being true.
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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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It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Who controls the money controls the world.
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Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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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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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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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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Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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