We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless..

The case for government by elites is irrefutable..

Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character..

Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations..

To be a statesman, you must first get elected..

Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them wi….

There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problem….

What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the conseque….

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith..

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes..

We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States..

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor..

Naturepitiless in a pitiless universeis certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two billion people ….

There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and the modern superpatriots. ….

I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opi….

I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling….

The great majority of the Senate of the United States...somewhere around 80 percent...are completely in support of Israel, anything Israel wants. Thi….

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of i….

One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violen….

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace - not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our….

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements..