When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

To reject the word is to reject the human search.

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

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.

Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like Harvey, was to recognize its existence and subject it to scientific study.