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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

Henry Kissinger

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
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
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
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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Experience Important World
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War

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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