Art is man's expression of his joy in labor..

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously..

Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual ….

Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they….

Americans believe that you can alter people by conversion, and that everybody in the world is a potential American. The Chinese also believe that the….

You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order….

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately..

In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, b….

Well, I don't know whether it caused anguish in China, but it was not a wise way to proceed. But one has to remember that it was the first experience….

We believe that peace is at hand..

Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening..

The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance..

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless..

With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears..

History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions….

We cannot give Russia veto over deployment of forces on NATO territory. But we have to understand their particular sensitivities, and, therefore, the….

Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot master revolu….

I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in many countri….

When I became security advisor, I became familiar with the so-called SIOP war plans, I called in Secretary McNamara and asked him what they were hidi….

The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries..

The defining issue is that the government in Taiwan was considered to be the government of all of China, and the authorities in Beijing were not reco….