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

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.

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

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

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

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

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.

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.

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.

Wars don't last forever. Ony war does.