Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.

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

The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself.

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

There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives.

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

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.

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of self-control is never a source of strength in political affairs.

Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.

Enlightenment is not an attainment, it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes.

Fairy tales die hard in the minds and hearts of some girls. Quinn

You keep customers by delivering on your promises, fulfilling your commitments and continually investing in the quality of your relationships.

He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.

Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

They say I look like a different ethnicity, and nobody's been recognizing me.

We do not have homosexuals in Iran like you do [in America].

American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.

Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done.

If the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift.