The Citizen Who Criticizes His Country Is

To Give [the Bay Of Pigs Invasion Of Cuba] Even Covert Support Is On A Par With The Hypocrisy And Cynicism For Which The United States Is Constantly Denouncing The Soviet Union In The United Nations And Elsewhere. This Point Will Not Be Lost On The Rest Of The World, Nor On Our Own Consciences.

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.

I Think We Americans Tend To Put Too High A Price On Unanimity, As If There Were Something Dangerous And Illegitimate About Honest Differences Of Opinion Honestly Expressed By Honest Men.

There Is Nothing Obscure About The Objectives Of Educational Exchange. Its Purpose Is To Acquaint Americans With The World As It Is And To Acquaint Students And Scholars From Many Lands With America As It Is-not As We Wish It Were Or As We Might Wish Foreigners To See It, But Exactly As It Is-which By My Reckoning Is An "image" Of Which No American Need Be Ashamed.

....man's Struggle To Be Rational About Himself, About His Relationship To His Own Society And To Other Peoples And Nations Involves A Constant Search For Understanding Among All Peoples And All Cultures-a Search That Can Only Be Effective When Learning Is Pursued On A Worldwide Basis.