A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

You don't have to preach honesty to men with a creative purpose. A genuine craftsman will not adulterate this product. The reason isn't because duty says he shouldn't, but because passion says he couldn't.

There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs.