CitationMisquotesContextSource LinkCitation “A country that demands moral perfection of itself as a test of its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.” ~Henry Kissinger, German-American statesman “Reflections on Containment” (May/June 1994) Foreign Affairs, Vol. 73, No. 3, p. 130; online via JSTOR [subscription service] www.jstor.org Misquotes Misquote notes: A number of sources attribute a paraphrased version of Kissinger’s quote to his original Foreign Affairs article: Actual - “A country that demands moral perfection of itself as a test of its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.” Misquote - “A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.” Source note: The
KISSINGER, Henry