A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good

The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.

Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong

The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage. Therefore its primary task is to create the conditions which will make possible a more highly developed organization.