Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

Now when the historic religions give trivial answers to these very tragic questions of our day, when an evangelist says, for instance, we mustn't hope for a summit meeting, we must hope in Christ without spelling out what this could mean in our particular nuclear age. This is the irrelevant answer, when another Evangelist says if America doesn't stop being selfish, it will be doomed. This is also a childish answer because nations are selfish and the question about America isn't whether we will be selfish or unselfish, but will we be sufficiently imaginative to pass the Reciprocal Trade Acts.

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.