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The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.

Henry Kissinger

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
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Goal Oppression
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
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
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
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
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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Argument Beginning End War
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
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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Perspective Problem Thinking
The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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Art Avoid Revenge
The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success

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