Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
HENRY KISSINGERA 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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The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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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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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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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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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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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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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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It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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It has the added advantage of being true.
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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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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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Who controls the money controls the world.
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Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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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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