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

A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.

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

Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

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.

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.