A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.