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If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
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It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical experience, as of personal experience, are contingent. They teach the consequences of certain actions, but they cannot force a recognition of comparable situations.
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If you mean by military victory an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible.
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Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.
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The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.
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The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is not a policy it is an alibi for the absence of one. The test is not absolute satisfaction but balanced dissatisfaction.
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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations.
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The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.
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