Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.

Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.

What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to go is right?