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

"Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship.

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

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.

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 Israelis object to an imposed settlement I don't know what they mean by an imposed settlement. It's quite obvious, without the all out support by the United States in money and weapons and so on the Israelis couldn't do what they've been doing. So we bear a very great share of the responsibility for the continuation of this...of this state of warfare.

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