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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.

Henry Kissinger

Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
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
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
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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Creation Freedom Peace Rule
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship

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