I Think We Americans Tend To Put

There Are Two Americas. One Is The America Of Lincoln And Adlai Stevenson; The Other Is The America Of Teddy Roosevelt And The Modern Superpatriots. One Is Generous And Humane, The Other Narrowly Egotistical; One Is Self-critical, The Other Self-righteous; One Is Sensible, The Other Romantic; One Is Good-humored, The Other Solemn; One Is Inquiring, The Other Pontificating; One Is Moderate, The Other Filled With Passionate Intensity; One Is Judicious And The Other Arrogant In The Use Of Great Power.

Like Medieval Theologians We Had A Philosophy That Explained Everything To Us In Advance, And Everything That Did Not Fit Could Be Readily Identified As A Fraud Or A Lie Or An Illusion... The Perniciousness Of The Anti-communist Ideology Of The Truman Doctrine Arises Not From Any Patent Falsehood But From Its Distortion And Simplification Of Reality, From Its Universalization And Its Elevation To The Status Of A Revealed Truth.

The Exchange Program Is The Thing That Reconciles Me To All The Difficulties Of Political Life.

Power Tends To Confuse Itself With Virtue, And A Great Nation Is Peculiarly Susceptible To The Idea That Its Power Is A Sign Of God's Favor.

As A Conservative Power, The United States Has A Vital Interest In Upholding And Expanding The Reign Of Law In International Relations.