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Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.

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.

World communism is like [a] malignant parasite which feeds on diseased tissue

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline.

One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household.

The Red Army ... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

The United States should not jump around like an elephant frightened by a mouse.

A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.