I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.

You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with people like yourself, from books written by people like yourself. In physics they call it resonance. You start out with modest opinions, but they match and build each other up to a scale.

Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.