If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.

Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.