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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,

Henry Kissinger

Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
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
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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
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
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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Experience Important World
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
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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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World

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