If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

Two members of my profession who are not urgently needed by my profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics, and they've done extremely well. Since there has been no reciprocal tendency in the other direction, it suggests to me that our job is still more difficult than their new one.

A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.

World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest sense,in its only sense, the patriotism of humans who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good.