Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character.

The case for government by elites is irrefutable.

The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations

It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril.

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.

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