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If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.

Henry Kissinger

Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
HENRY KISSINGER

Force Rule
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
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
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
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
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
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
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
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
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure

If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.

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