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

Henry Kissinger

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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
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
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
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
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Class History Oneself
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
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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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
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
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science

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