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Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?
Henry A. Kissinger
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Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.
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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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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.
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Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided more often it is a crisis invited.
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A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.
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To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal
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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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I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.
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The members of the Islamic Staye have cut the throat of an American on television. This is an insult to the United States, which requires that we demonstrate that this is not an act that is free. I would strongly favor a strong attack on ISIS for a period that is related to the murder of the American.
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Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.
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U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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In a nuclear war, even if one side were to come out ahead by systems analytical standards, both sides would be so weakened, that it would - they would be in the position of Europe after the two World Wars.
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Well, he keeps saying that, and as defense secretary, of course he has to think of a lot of potential enemies. I do not think it's a wise course to articulate this or to base our policy on it. And I do not see under modern circumstances what we would be fighting about.
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