No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace.

Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic - or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.

The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.

Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to subpoena witnesses, to cross-examine, to scrutinize official records. They are lucky to get their phone calls returned.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work.