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

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

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

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

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.

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.