War Is A Highly Overrated Tool Of

Were The Soviet Union To Sink Tomorrow Under The Waters Of The Ocean, The American Military-industrial Establishment Would Have To Go On, Substantially Unchanged, Until Some Other Adversary Could Be Invented. Anything Else Would Be An Unacceptable Shock To The American Economy.

...there Is An Optimal Balance, Depending On The Manner Of Man's Life, Between The Density Of Human Population And The Tolerances Of Nature. This Balance, In The Case Of The United States Would Seem To Me To Have Been Surpassed When The American Population Reached, At A Very Maximum, Two Hundred Million People, And Perhaps A Good Deal Less.

We Are, If Territory And Population Be Looked At Together, One Of The Great Countries Of The World - A Monster Country, One Might Say, Along With Others Such As China, India, The Recent Soviet Union, And Brazil. And There Is A Real Question As To Whether "bigness" In A Body Politic Is Not An Evil In Itself, Quite Aside From The Policies Pursued In Its Name.

There Is More Respect To Be Won In The Opinion Of This World By A Resolute And Courageous Liquidation Of Unsound Positions Than By The Most Stubborn Pursuit Of Extravagant Or Unpromising Objectives.

Like A Graceful Vase, A Cat, Even When Motionless, Seems To Flow.