We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

The case for government by elites is irrefutable.

Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our children.

Naturepitiless in a pitiless universeis certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two billion people now inhabiting this earth. Hence, our destiny, with the aid of God, remains in our own hands.

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

Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.

There is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as it is and to acquaint students and scholars from many lands with America as it is-not as we wish it were or as we might wish foreigners to see it, but exactly as it is-which by my reckoning is an "image" of which no American need be ashamed.