History is the memory of States.
HENRY KISSINGERAmerica has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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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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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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In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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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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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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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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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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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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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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order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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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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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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