Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.

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?

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.

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

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

Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the lower, more physical, and menial levels of the economic process, is a serious weakness, and possibly even a fatal one, in any national society. The fully healthy society would find ways to meet those needs out of its own resources.