There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory - to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...