A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.

One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?

We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land. What we have now would have been enough to deter Hitler. But we are talking in a different order of reality.