A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
HENRY KISSINGER
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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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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Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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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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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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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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If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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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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When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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