Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
HENRY KISSINGERPoor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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