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

Henry Kissinger

A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security
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
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
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
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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Moral Right Risk Survive
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: 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 Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful

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

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