Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
HENRY KISSINGERIn short, the end justifies the means.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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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 the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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It has the added advantage of being true.
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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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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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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In short, the end justifies the means.
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The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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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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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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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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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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