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

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

A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.

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.

I do not think it is "selling America short" when we ask a great deal of her; on the contrary, it is those who ask nothing, those who see no fault, who are really selling America short!

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

Like medieval theologians we had a philosophy that explained everything to us in advance, and everything that did not fit could be readily identified as a fraud or a lie or an illusion... The perniciousness of the anti-Communist ideology of the Truman Doctrine arises not from any patent falsehood but from its distortion and simplification of reality, from its universalization and its elevation to the status of a revealed truth.