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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.

Henry Kissinger

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
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
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
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
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 Live Strong Time Weakness
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Desire Heart Life Lose Tragedy Yourself
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
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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Important Reputation Worth
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 country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security

Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.

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