To Be A Statesman, You Must First

The American Public Has Become So Conditioned By Crises, By Warnings, By Words, That There Are Few, Other Than The Young, Who Protest Against What Is Happening.

Power Confuses Itself With Virtue And Tends Also To Take Itself For Omnipotence.

We Are Trying To Remake Vietnamese Society, A Task Which Certainly Cannot Be Accomplished By Force And Which Probably Cannot Be Accomplished By Any Means Available To Outsiders.

Education Is A Slow-moving But Powerful Force. It May Not Be Fast Enough Or Strong Enough To Save Us From Catastrophe, But It Is The Strongest Force Available For That Purpose And In Its Proper Place, Therefore, Is Not At The Periphery, But At The Center Of International Relations.

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 Own Failures.