The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.

Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

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