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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Henry Kissinger

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
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
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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Desire Heart Life Lose Tragedy Yourself
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
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
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
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
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
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
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

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