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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.

Henry Kissinger

In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
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
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
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
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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Expectation Nation Respect
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
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

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