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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

Henry Kissinger

The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True
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
If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
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
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust

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