In every era, humanity produces demonic individuals and seductive ideas of repression. The task of statesmanship is to prevent their rise to power and sustain an international order capable of deterring them if they do achieve it.

Henry Kissinger
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The greatest tension in human history is between freedom and power. The greatest challenge in human history is to gain the power to use freedom. The greatest danger in human history is that freedom will be used against us.

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