Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.