Israel's shooting down of a civilian airplane and then the killing of 107 innocent peopel aboard, and their raid into neutral Lebanon are very dangerous developments. There's only one way I can see to stop it...is for the United States to take a very strong stand that this has to be settled...politically settled.

"The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last."

We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

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

To ask for overt renunciation of a cherished doctrine is to expect too much of human nature. Men do not repudiate the doctrines and dogmas to which they have sworn their loyalty. Instead they rationalize, revise, and re-interpret them to meet new needs and new circumstances, all the while protesting that their heresy is the purest orthodoxy.

The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening.

It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times a day. As election day approaches, the size of the crowds grows; they are more responsive and more interested; and one derives a certain exhilaration from that which, only a few weeks before, was intensely painful. This is one possible explanation of unlimited debate in the Senate.