In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil

All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He draws blueprints for Utopia, but never quite gets it built. In the end he plugs away obstinately with the only building material really ever at hand--his own part comic, part tragic, part cussed, but part glorious nature.

The picture of the world's greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny backward nation into submission on an issue whose merits are hotly disputed, is not a pretty one.

There is no more important task in a democracy than resolving the differences among people and finding a course of action that will be supported by a sufficient number to permit the nation to achieve a better life for all.

They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!

Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society.