The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.