Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

The case for government by elites is irrefutable.

Israel controls the United States Senate.