Wars don't last forever. Ony war does.

You must be very subtle. ... You have to treat a highly intelligent man as a highly intelligent man. You must make him immediately aware that you are taking him very seriously. And you must enhance his confidence. Flattery is simply to make a man believe he can solve his problems.

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says: Yes; the little ones does.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars-yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

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.

Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-cen-tury politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich. Both men were artificers, able to hold off the future by building a fragile present out of pieces of the past.

An ally need not own the land he helps.

Alliance, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third.

What might save us, me and you, is if the Russians love their children too.

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing.

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

We must not be innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

That expression positive neutrality is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.