When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.

... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it

A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.