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.

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

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

We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.

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

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.

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