Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.

World communism is like [a] malignant parasite which feeds on diseased tissue

War has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like us to do, you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end.

The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.