The U.S. has no friends, only interests.

Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs.

I'm making progress if today's problems are different from yesterday's.

In order to bring a nation to support the burdens incident to maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace or of internal conditions rendered intolerable by the unjust restraints of foreign nations. This involves the development to a high degree of the nation-hero nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of the duty of sacrifice.

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

Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts, Peace, too, requires well-directed and sustained sacrificial endeavor. Given that, we can, I believe, achieve the great goal of our foreign policy, that of enabling our people to enjoy in peace the blessings of liberty.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.