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

Henry Kissinger

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
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
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
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
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
Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Perspective Problem Thinking
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
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: 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 Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful

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