The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
HENRY KISSINGERSince Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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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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Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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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 international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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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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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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History is the memory of States.
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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