The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better, and therefore he used to say, Tyranny tempered by assassination, but lots of assassination. People say, If the Congress were more representative of the people it would be better. I say the Congress is too damn representative. It's just as stupid as the people are; just as uneducated, just as dumb, just as selfish.

With a nation, as with a boxer, one of the greatest assurances of safety is to add reach to power.

How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.

The future comes one day at a time [so don't fear and try to solve all the worries and problems of the future today].

The Iraqi is really not whacky toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word, he gave us the bird and joined with the Arabs, by cracky!

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.