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The reason prophets are so rarely honored in their own country is that their role is to transcend the limits of their contemporaries' experience and imagination. They achieve recognition only when their vision has been turned into experience - in short, when it is too late to benefit from their foresight.
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Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.
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I believe that without Watergate we would have had an extraordinary period of success with a strong Nixon and a still vital Brezhnev in power.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.
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In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or in pressuring him, it only sets up a cycle in which he will try to get even.
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If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
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A little uncertainty is good for everyone.
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I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.
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When I became security advisor, I became familiar with the so-called SIOP war plans, I called in Secretary McNamara and asked him what they were hiding from me, because I couldn't believe that the National policy would foresee such a level of destructiveness.
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If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.
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For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.
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The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
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What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system
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A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
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The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.
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To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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