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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.

Henry Kissinger

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
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
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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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Moral Right Risk Survive
The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
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
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
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Strategy Writing
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality

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