The American Public Has Become So Conditioned

When Public Men Indulge Themselves In Abuse, When They Deny Others A Fair Trial, When They Resort To Innuendo And Insinuation, To Libel, Scandal, And Suspicion, Then Our Democratic Society Is Outraged, And Democracy Is Baffled. It Has No Apparatus To Deal With The Boor, The Liar, The Lout, And The Antidemocrat In General.

Law Is The Essential Foundation Of Stability And Order Both Within Societies And In International Relations.

Finally, The Program Aims, Through These Means, To Bring A Little More Knowledge, A Little More Reason, And A Little More Compassion Into World Affairs And Thereby To Increase The Chance That Nations Will Learn At Last To Live In Peace And Friendship.

To Ask For Overt Renunciation Of A Cherished Doctrine Is To Expect Too Much Of Human Nature. Men Do Not Repudiate The Doctrines And Dogmas To Which They Have Sworn Their Loyalty. Instead They Rationalize, Revise, And Re-interpret Them To Meet New Needs And New Circumstances, All The While Protesting That Their Heresy Is The Purest Orthodoxy.

The Biggest Lesson I Learned From Vietnam Is Not To Trust [our Own] Government Statements.