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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

It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
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
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
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
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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Expectation Nation Respect
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
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
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
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
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

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