The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian..

The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against its….

Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with certain things….

Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a poss….

There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our ….

We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is ….

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy..

World communism is like [a] malignant parasite which feeds on diseased tissue.

The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the world are neither in its….

The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia, if they do not wish….

It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enoug….

Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantial….

The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of self-control is never a sou….

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters..

Heroism is endurance for one moment more..

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live..

It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant contai….

The United States should not jump around like an elephant frightened by a mouse..

It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's own people. And to the mi….

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few hav….

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, t….