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Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.

Henry A. Kissinger

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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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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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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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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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Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.
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Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Historically when there is a rising power like China, it has usually led to confrontations between the rising power and the existing dominant powers. And when you have a shift of the center of gravity of world affairs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, then you have an additional element.
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Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.
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The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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