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

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

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.

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

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.