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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.

Henry Kissinger

Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
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
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
Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Perspective Problem 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
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Creation Freedom Peace Rule
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
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics

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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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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