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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.

Henry Kissinger

In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
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
Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Goal Oppression
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership

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