This Is A Big World. Billions -

Public Opinion, Or What Passes For Public Opinion, Is Not Invariably A Moderating Force In The Jungle Of Politics.

The Best An American Can Look Forward To Is The Lonely Pleasure Of One Who Stands At Long Last On A Chilly And Inhospitable Mountaintop Where Few Have Been Before, Where Few Can Follow And Where Few Will Consent To Believe He Has Been.

The Nuclear Bomb Is The Most Useless Weapon Ever Invented. It Can Be Employed To No Rational Purpose. It Is Not Even An Effective Defense Against Itself.

The United States Cannot Reshape Other Countries In Its Own Image And That, With A Few Exceptions, Its Efforts To Police The World Are Neither In Its Interests Nor Within The Scope Of Its Resources. This Whole Tendency To See Ourselves As The Center Of Political Enlightenment And As Teachers To A Great Part Of The Rest Of The World Strikes Me As Unthought-through, Vainglorious And Undesirable.

Whenever You Have A Possibility Of Going In Two Ways, Either For Peace Or For War, For Peaceful Methods Of For Military Methods, In The Present Age There Is A Strong Prejudice For The Peaceful Ones. War Seldom Ever Leads To Good Results.