America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only to end with every weakness disclosed and every error compounding the downfall--that was a fate of biblical proportions. Evidently the Deity would not tolerate the presumption that all can be manipulated; an object lesson of the limits of human presumption was necessary.

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.

The Western concept of democracy is based on the idea that the loser of an election has the possibility next time round of being the winner. But in the case of an ethnically or religiously divided country, in which minorities don't live peacefully together, this necessary balance can't be properly guaranteed by democracy. When each ethnic group arms itself, it is not surprising that the army of a new state is viewed by part of the population as an ideological militia.