There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

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 great majority of the Senate of the United States...somewhere around 80 percent...are completely in support of Israel, anything Israel wants. This has been demonstrated time and again, and this has made it difficult.

As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.

Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship.

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.