The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.

We are used to dealing with problems that have a solution and that can be solved in a finite period. But we're at the beginning of a long period of adjustment that does not have a clear-cut terminal point, and in which our wisdom and sophistication and understanding has to be one of the key elements.

I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.

Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.

In the middle '50s, I had written that the point would come, inevitably, at which the relationship between the cause of conflict and political objectives would be lost.