I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

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 exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.

It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent behavior seems to vary directly with his perception of others as individual humans with human motives and feelings, whereas his capacity for barbarism seems related to his perception of an adversary in abstract terms, as the embodiment, that is, of some evil design or ideology.

Education is a slow-moving but powerful force. It may not be fast enough or strong enough to save us from catastrophe, but it is the strongest force available for that purpose and in its proper place, therefore, is not at the periphery, but at the center of international relations.