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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.

Henry Kissinger

Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
HENRY KISSINGER

Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
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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Argument Beginning End War
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
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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 Live Strong Time Weakness
order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Creation Freedom Peace Rule
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
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
The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Goal Oppression
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
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
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
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time

Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.

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