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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.

Henry Kissinger

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
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
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
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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End Establishment History Power Rise War
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
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
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
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
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True

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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