More from Henry Kissinger
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
- The New York Times (January 19, 1971). See Michael C. Thomsett and Jean Freestone Thomsett War and Conflict Quotations: A Worldwide Dictionary of Pronouncements from Military Leaders, Politicians, Philosophers, Writers and Others Jefferson, NC & Lond
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles.
More about truth and lies
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn, Stanza 5. The final lines of this poem have been rendered in various ways in different editions, some placing the entire last two lines within quotation marks, others only the statement “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” …In contextA lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
