History Is A Better Guide Than Good

And I Have No Doubt That The American People Generally Believe The World Is Safer, And That We Are Safer, When We Are Stronger

[the American Position At The Un Is] Essentially Impotent, Without Influence, Heavily Outvoted, And Isolated.

Power ... Is Not An End In Itself, But Is An Instrument That Must Be Used Toward An End.

I Think That It's Always Appropriate For Americans And For American Foreign Policy To Make Clear Why We Feel That Self-government Is Most Compatible With Peace, The Well-being Of People, And Human Dignity

Decades, If Not Centuries Are Normally Required For People To Acquire The Necessary Disciplines And Habits. In Britain, The Road [to Democratic Government] Took Seven Centuries To Traverse.