The Truth Is Sometimes A Poor Competitor

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.

Above All, It Behooves Us To Repress, And If Possible To Extinguish Once And For All, Our Inveterate Tendency To Judge Others By The Extent To Which They Contrive To Be Like Ourselves.

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.

Like A Graceful Vase, A Cat, Even When Motionless, Seems To Flow.

Anyone Who Has Ever Studied The History Of American Diplomacy, Especially Military Diplomacy, Knows That You Might Start In A War With Certain Things On Your Mind As A Purpose Of What You Are Doing, But In The End, You Found Yourself Fighting For Entirely Different Things That You Had Never Thought Of Before. In Other Words, War Has A Momentum Of Its Own And It Carries You Away From All Thoughtful Intentions When You Get Into It. Today, If We Went Into Iraq, Like The President Would Like Us To Do, You Know Where You Begin. You Never Know Where You Are Going To End.