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 KISSINGERYet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
HENRY KISSINGERIn short, the end justifies the means.
HENRY KISSINGERThe Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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 KISSINGERIt is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
HENRY KISSINGERPostcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
HENRY KISSINGERCovert action should not be confused with missionary work.
HENRY KISSINGERThe absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
HENRY KISSINGERChinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
HENRY KISSINGERAmericans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
HENRY KISSINGERNinety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
HENRY KISSINGERThe mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
HENRY KISSINGERThe goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
HENRY KISSINGERThe Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
HENRY KISSINGERThe issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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