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

Henry Kissinger

There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
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
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy 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
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
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
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 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
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
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
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Creation Freedom Peace Rule

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