In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

"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."

Education is a slow moving but powerful force

The case for government by elites is irrefutable.

This is regrettable indeed for a nation that aspires to teach democracy to other nations, because, as Burke said: "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."