No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.

The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.

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

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.