Public Opinion, Or What Passes For Public

We Should Cease To Talk About Vague And Unreal Objectives Such As Human Rights, The Raising Of The Living Standards, And Democratization. The Day Is Not Far Off When We Are Going To Have To Deal In Straight Power Concepts. The Less We Are Then Hampered By Idealistic Slogans, The Better.

It Is An Undeniable Privilege Of Every Man To Prove Himself Right In The Thesis That The World Is His Enemy; For If He Reiterates It Frequently Enough And Makes It The Background Of His Conduct He Is Bound Eventually To Be Right.

Do People Ever Reflect, One Wonders, That The Best Way To Protect Against The Penetration Of One's Secrets By Others Is To Have The Minimum Of Secrets To Conceal?

A Political Society Does Not Live To Conduct Foreign Policy; It Would Be More Correct To Say That It Conducts Foreign Policy In Order To Live.

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.