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 clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.

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

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.