With a nation, as with a boxer, one of the greatest assurances of safety is to add reach to power.

Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also carry infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe through Italy and France, already threatened by the strongest domestic Communist parties in Western Europe. The Soviet Union was playing one of the greatest gambles in history at minimal cost. It did not need to will all the possibilities. Even one or two offered immense gains. We and we alone were in a position to break up the play.

The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.

You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it.

With a nation, as with a boxer, one of the greatest assurances of safety is to add reach to power.

The future comes one day at a time [so don't fear and try to solve all the worries and problems of the future today].