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Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.

Henry Kissinger

History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
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
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
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
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
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
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing

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