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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.

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
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
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
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
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
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 illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
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
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
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
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality

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