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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 issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
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
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
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
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
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
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
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
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
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth

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