[John Foster Dulles] invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly.

Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares.

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.