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,
HENRY KISSINGERIt’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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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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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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In short, the end justifies the means.
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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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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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Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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