Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations

We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it to the science and art of many societies.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

"The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last."

We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

The spirit gives life.

I'm poor and my cat is huge.

Yesterday is a cancelled check tomorrow is a promissory note today is the only cash you have-so spend it wisely.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.

English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son.

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.

Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made.