The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus.

[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.

No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

Greatness is a quality of character and is not the result of circumstances.