There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it..

The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent..

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence..

Education is the best means-probably the only means-by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity about each other's behavior and intentions….

The Israelis object to an imposed settlement I don't know what they mean by an imposed settlement. It's quite obvious, without the all out support by….

With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war with Japan, in August of t….

Well, we have the leverage in the sense that we supply all the wherewithal...or a major part of the wherewithal to finance or to pay for everything I….

"The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last.".

Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our childr….

As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations..

It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission..

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute..

A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are..

Israel controls the United States Senate..

Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations..

....Man's struggle to be rational about himself, about his relationship to his own society and to other peoples and nations involves a constant searc….

Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always had great difficulty-sinc….

It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times a day. As election day app….

The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life..

The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the development of civili….

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts..