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.

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

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.

The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself.

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

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.