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

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

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

Brains are no substitute for judgement.

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

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.