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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

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
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
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
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
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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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Growth Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
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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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
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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Growth Live Strong Time Weakness
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule

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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