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

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

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?

The only failures are those who fail to try.

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.