Together they [President Nixon and Secretary Kissinger] pursued ends that frequently had a tenuous link with reality, using means that were not merely disproportionate but counterproductive and untrue to those values they were meant to defend. In fact neither man demonstrated much faith in those values.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.