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

There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.

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

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

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

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.

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.