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.
HENRY KISSINGERAmericans 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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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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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,
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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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In short, the end justifies the means.
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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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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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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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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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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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George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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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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Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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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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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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If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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