No people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the – not so very – long run.
Vietnam was worse than immoral – it was a mistake.
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon.
Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.
The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.
The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may be, is particularly equipped to be the chief executive of this country, particularly where Indian Affairs are concerned.
To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.
No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.
Greatness is a quality of character and is not the result of circumstances.
Charm never made a rooster.
Brains are no substitute for judgement.
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!
I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.