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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem

Henry Kissinger

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
For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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Expectation Nation Respect
A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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End Establishment History Power Rise War
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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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
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
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place

Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem

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