All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.

The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising.

If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.