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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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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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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The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Who controls the money controls the world.
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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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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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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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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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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