The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state

One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them.

One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.

Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.