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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

Henry Kissinger

Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
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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Argument Beginning End War
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security
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
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
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
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
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
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
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

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