It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
HENRY KISSINGERThe reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
HENRY KISSINGERPoliticians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
HENRY KISSINGERFor Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
HENRY KISSINGERIntellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
HENRY KISSINGERYet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
HENRY KISSINGERCan governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
HENRY KISSINGERThere can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
HENRY KISSINGERNobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
HENRY KISSINGERIt is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
HENRY KISSINGERSelf-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
HENRY KISSINGERWhere is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
HENRY KISSINGERI want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
HENRY KISSINGERPostcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
HENRY KISSINGERThe illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
HENRY KISSINGERThe absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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