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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

The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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Art Avoid Revenge
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
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
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
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
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 absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
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 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

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