A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's own people. And to the millions of such prospective immigrants from poverty to prosperity, there is, rightly or wrongly, no place that looks more attractive than the United States. Given its head, and subject to no restrictions, this pressure will find its termination only when the levels of overpopulation and poverty in the United States are equal to those of the countries from which these people are now so anxious to escape.

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.

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where it will have no security at all.

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

The United States should not jump around like an elephant frightened by a mouse.